BRANT FOOTE IS NEW RAP DIRECTOR

Brant Foote, senior scientist in the Research Applications Program, has 
been appointed as the director of RAP by NCAR director Bob Serafin, 
effective 1 August.  Brant succeeds John McCarthy, who became a UCAR 
vice president and director of the Walter Orr Roberts Institute earlier this 
year.  Rich Wagoner served as interim director of RAP.

A specialist in mesoscale meteorology, Brant came to NCAR as a 
postdoctoral fellow in 1970.  He was a project leader with the National 
Hail Research Experiment during the 1970s and became a senior scientist 
in 1982.  Brant managed NCAR's Field Observing Facility from 1986 to 
1987, went to MMM from 1987 to 1989, then took on the management of 
RAP's Applied Science Group.

Brant earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his master's and 
doctoral degrees in atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, 
finishing in 1971 with a dissertation on raindrop interactions and 
dynamics.  With over 70 scientific publications to his name, Brant has been 
a key figure in the international cloud physics and mesoscale meteorology 
communities.  He recently ended an eight-year tenure as editor of the 
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.  Brant has served on several national 
and international committees and led a number of large field programs, 
including most recently an experiment to study terrain-induced wind 
shear and turbulence in Hong Kong.
	
"I expect RAP to continue its important role in technology transfer related 
to aviation weather hazard issues," says Brant.  "There is a lot of exciting 
research and development to be accomplished in the aviation arena and in 
other areas of society where detection and short-term forecasts of 
significant weather events have a big payoff."  --BH