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Mary Glackin was appointed the Acting Assistant Administrator for
Weather Services and Acting Director of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service in June
2007. She is responsible for the day-to-day civilian weather
operations of 122 local Weather Forecast Offices in the United States,
Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam. She also leads operations in 13
River Forecast Centers, 9 National Centers for Environmental
Prediction, and 21 Aviation Center Weather Service Units.
NOAA's National Weather Service provides timely, accurate, and focused
daily forecasts and event-driven warnings to the American media,
emergency managers, fire land managers, commercial weather partners,
and the general public. Event driven warnings are issued for weather
and natural hazards such as hurricanes, tornadoes, severe
thunderstorms, flash floods, winter storms, extreme fire weather
conditions, and tsunamis. NOAA's National Weather Service is a leader
in the application of weather research to operational meteorology and
hydrology in the areas of radar, satellite, environmental modeling, and
homeland security. The 4,600 people of NOAA's National Weather Service
recently received a highly commendable score of “84” from the general
public in an American Customer Satisfaction Index survey conducted by
the University of Michigan.
From 2002 to 2007, Ms. Glackin served as Assistant Administrator for
the NOAA's Office of Program Planning and Integration. In this
role, she was responsible for corporate management and coordination of
the many lines of service of this $3.9 billion agency dedicated to
understanding and predicting changes in the Earth's environment and
conserving and managing coastal and marine resources. She was
responsible for both annual planning as well as long term strategic
planning, performance evaluation, program integration through matrix
management, and policy integration including compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act. Her efforts were directed to
ensuring NOAA's investments and actions are guided by a strategic plan;
are based on sound social and economic analysis; adhere to executive
and legislative science, technology and environmental policy; and
integrate the full breadth of NOAA's resources, knowledge and talent to
meet its stated mission goal.
From 1999 until 2002, Ms. Glackin served as the Deputy Assistant
Administrator for the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service of NOAA. In this capacity, she was responsible for
the design, development, and operation of a series of civilian
environmental satellite systems. This required processing and
distribution of satellite products and services to domestic and foreign
users, as well as data archive, assessment, and access services for
atmospheric, oceanographic, and geophysical data.
From 1993 to 1999, Ms. Glackin served as the Program Manager for the
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) with the
National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA. AWIPS is frequently called the
“integrating element” of the NWS's $4 billion modernization effort. It
brought together in one system all of the key meteorological and
hydrological data sets and provided the forecaster with communication,
computation, and display capabilities. AWIPS was a recipient of the
Smithsonian's Information Technology Award and received the exclusive
Best of What's New Award by Popular Science Magazine.
Prior to this, Ms. Glackin worked as both a meteorologist and computer
specialist in various positions within NOAA where she was responsible
for introducing improvements into NWS operations by capitalizing on new
technology systems and scientific models.
Ms. Glackin has a B.S. degree from the University of Maryland. She is
the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award (2001), Charles Brooks
Award for Outstanding Services to the American Meteorological Society,
the NOAA Bronze Medal (2001), the Federal 100 Information Technology
Manager Award (1999), the NOAA Administrator's Award (1993), and the
Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award (1991). She is a Fellow of
the American Meteorological Society and a member of the National
Weather Association and the American Geophysical Union.
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