Micheal Hicks, NIST

Biography

Micheal Hicks serves as Program Leader of the Laboratory Metrology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Physical Measurement Laboratory, Office of Weights and Measures Division.  He received training in Metrology with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where he worked in the Standards Laboratory in Sterling, VA for the National Weather Service (NWS).  He has a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences.  He is a published author in several peer-reviewed journals in the use of observing methods to measure atmospheric conditions.  As Program Leader of the Laboratory Metrology Program, he supports the mission of ensuring the uniformity and traceability of the US legal metrology system to the international system of units (SI) by providing metrology training and proficiency testing opportunities and Recognition (i.e., Accreditation) to legal metrology laboratories. 

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