Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

M. W. Drigert has been associated with many research programs done with the Argonne-Notre Dame BGO {gamma}-ray facility. Within the collaboration he is responsible for the maintenance and continuous upgrade of the software used to analyze the data taken with the facility. Among the present tasks under way are the migration of the analysis software to UNIX platforms and the expansion of the software`s graphics capabilities. M. W. Drigert has been heavily involved in the superdeformation studies in the Dy and Pb mass regions. He has also been interested in the study of octupole stability in the light actinide mass region. Future research plans include further studies of nuclei in the light actinide region, with the emphasis on using the FMA in conjunction with the Ge detectors from the {gamma}-ray facility to investigate nuclei which can only be populated by charged particle evaporation channels.