After graduating from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, M.J. Post began his career in 1970 as an assistant station scientific leader for Byrd Station, Antarctica. The team at Byrd Station conducted seven experiments in upper atmospheric physics.

Post moved on from Byrd Station to become part of NOAA's cw Doppler lidar team, building the first measurements of the velocity structure within waterspouts.

He continued to contribute to NOAA's WINDSAT feasibility study by analyzing atmospheric effects on satellite systems. He spent several years using lidars to study atmospheric dynamics and processes involving the distribution and removal of atmospheric aerosols.

For two years Post was an optical designer for water analysis equipment in the private sector. He returned to the government sector to complete the high-power, injection-seeded transmitter upgrade to NOAA's Doppler lidar and to develop new lidar remote sensors.

In 1993 Post was named Chief of the System Demonstration and Integration Division (SDID), within the Environmental Technology Laboratory.

Over the last six years this position has given him technical experience integrating radars, radiometers, and satellite sensors into systems to profile temperature, humidity, and wind; and analysis of large lidar datasets for insights into atmospheric dynamics.

In addition to his assignment as Chief of SDID, Post continued to serve as project leader for DOE's unattended cloud-profiling radar and as Chief Scientist for the 1996 multiagency Combined Sensor Program, a 30-day, 6000-km shipboard mission in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. Most recently, he is serving as Chief Scientist on the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown for the Nauru99 campaign.

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