COMET Sponsors

MetEd and the COMET® Program are a part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's (UCAR's) Community Programs (UCP) and are sponsored by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:

• Bureau of Meteorology of Australia (BoM)
• Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of the Interior
• European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
• Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
• NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
• NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
• Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

To learn more about us, please visit the COMET website.

Project Contributors

Senior Project Manager

• Dr. Greg Byrd — UCAR/COMET

Project Lead

• Dr. Victoria Johnson — UCAR/COMET

Instructional Design

• Dr. Victoria Johnson — UCAR/COMET

Project Meteorologist

• Andrea Smith — UCAR/COMET

Principal Science Advisors

• Daniel Banks — NMOPDC
• AG1 Nathan Bizzle — FWC San Diego-SGOT West
• Dr. Richard Jeffries — CNMOC
• AG2 Leana Pack — FWC San Diego-SGOT West
• Mark Shaffer — NMOPDC

Graphics/Interface Design

• Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring

• Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET

Audio/Video Editing/Production

• Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET

Audio Narration

• Wendy Abshire — UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, Spring 2012

Director

• Dr. Timothy Spangler

Administration

• Elizabeth Lessard, Administration and Business Manager
• Lorrie Alberta
• Michelle Harrison
• Hildy Kane

Hardware/Software Support and Programming

• Tim Alberta, Group Manager
• Bob Bubon
• Ken Kim
• Mark Mulholland
• Victor Taberski - Student Assistant
• Chris Webber - Student Assistant
• Malte Winkler

Instructional Designers

• Dr. Patrick Parrish, Senior Project Manager
• Dr. Alan Bol
• Maria Frostic
• Lon Goldstein
• Bryan Guarente
• Dr. Vickie Johnson
• Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov
• Marianne Weingroff

Media Production Group

• Bruce Muller, Group Manager
• Steve Deyo
• Dan Riter
• Carl Whitehurst

Meteorologists/Scientists

• Dr. Greg Byrd, Senior Project Manager
• Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project Manager
• Dr. William Bua
• Patrick Dills
• Matthew Kelsch
• Dolores Kiessling
• Dr. Arlene Laing
• Dave Linder
• Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
• Amy Stevermer

Spanish Translations

• David Russi

NOAA/National Weather Service - Forecast Decision Training Branch

• Anthony Mostek, Branch Chief
• Dr. Richard Koehler, Hydrology Training Lead
• Brian Motta, IFPS Training
• Dr. Robert Rozumalski, SOO Science and Training Resource (SOO/STRC) Coordinator
• Ross Van Til, Meteorologist
• Shannon White, AWIPS Training

Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists

• Brad Snyder