Anthony J. Calio, NOAA administrator

Anthony J. Calio, 82, a physicist and former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who also had been a senior executive of NASA, died Jan. 14 at his home at Whidbey Island, Wash.

He died of congestive heart failure and lung cancer, said his wife, Jenanne Murphy.

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Dr. Calio joined NOAA as deputy administrator in 1981 and became administrator in 1985. He retired from government service in 1987, then served as vice president of the McLean-based Planning Research Corp. and the Reston-based Hughes Information Technology Co., a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft. He retired in 1999 and moved to Washington State in 2000 from Alexandria.

At NOAA, Dr. Calio supported coordination among federal agencies in addressing climate and environmental changes.

Anthony John Calio was a Philadelphia native and a 1953 physics graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He did postgraduate study in physics at Penn and at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He was a Sloan fellow at Stanford University, where he received a master’s degree in business administration in 1975.

From 1977 until he joined NOAA, he was associate administrator for space and terrestrial applications at NASA. He joined NASA in 1963 as a staff member of the electronics research task group at the office of advanced research and technology at NASA headquarters.

His memberships included the Cosmos Club.

His marriages to Betty Delp and Cheryll Madison ended in divorce. In 2000, he married Jenanne Murphy.

Besides his wife, of Whidbey Island, survivors include four children from his first marriage, Kate Ratkus of Gig Harbor, Wash., Mary Beth Calio of Douglasville, Ga., Barbara Jean Calio of Philadelphia and Mimi Calio of Canton, Ga.; and six grandchildren.

— Bart Barnes