Vickie Nadolski was appointed Deputy Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Deputy Director of the National Weather Service in December 2007. Her career spans more than three decades of dedicated public service.
Ms. Nadolski began her NWS career as a staff meteorologist in 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio, where she issued public, aviation, and marine weather forecasts and warnings for 32 counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Lake Erie.
In the early 1980s, Ms. Nadolski began development of sensors and algorithms to support automation and managed demonstration test bed projects at the NWS’ Sterling, Virginia Test and Development Center. Ms. Nadolski served more than a decade in both program management and as the manager of the $230 million tri-agency acquisition of the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) at National Weather Service Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. This entailed managing the collaborative efforts of the Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, and Department of Transportation to define, develop, and implement more than 900 ASOS sites.
In January 1999, Ms. Nadolski was appointed Director of the National Weather Service Western Region. She was responsible for the management and operation of twenty-four Weather Forecast Offices (WFO), three River Forecast Centers (RFC), and four Aviation Center Weather Service Units, which provide weather, water, and climate forecasts and warnings for eight states, adjacent waters, and ocean areas for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy.
Ms. Nadolski holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science equivalent in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University. She received the honorable Fellow status with the American Meteorological Society in January, 2006. Her numerous awards include the Department of Commerce Silver Medal and several awards from local, state, and national organizations for her work on automating surface observations.
Ms. Nadolski serves on the AMS Board for Women and minorities. She also serves as the gender focal point for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the gender focal point for the WMO Commission for Basic Systems and the gender focal point for the WMO Commission on Instruments and Methods of Observations.