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COMET Sponsors
The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:
- Bureau of Meteorology of Australia
- Bureau of Reclamation (United States Department of the Interior)
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
- Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
- NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
Project Contributors
Project Lead
- Dr. Doug Wesley — UCAR/COMET
Project Meteorologist
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET
Instructional Design/Multimedia Authoring
- Dr. Alan Bol — UCAR/COMET
Principal Science Advisors
- CDR Robert Kiser – Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center (NAVMETOCPRODEVCEN) Staff at HQ AFWA/DNT 28th OWS Training Flight, Shaw AFB
- Kim Curry – Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center - San Diego (NAVPACMETOCCEN)
- Dr. Thomas Lee – Naval Research Laboratory - Marine Meteorology Division (NRL-MMD)
- Dr. Wendell Nuss – Naval Postgraduate School
Graphics/Animations/Interface Design
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET
Audio Editing/Production
- Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET
Audio Narration
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET
Images and Photographs Provided By
- NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
COMET Staff, Fall/Winter 2013-2014
Director
- Dr. Rich Jeffries
Deputy Director
- Dr. Greg Byrd
Business Administration
- Elizabeth Lessard, Business Manager
- Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
- Hildy Kane, Administrative Assistant
IT Services
- Tim Alberta, Group Manager
- Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
- Malte Winkler, Software Engineer
Instruction and Media Services
- Bruce Muller, Group Manager
- Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
- Steve Deyo, Graphic and 3D Designer
- Lon Goldstein, Instructional Designer
- Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer
- Dan Riter, Software Engineer
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
- David Russi, Spanish Translations
- Marianne Weingroff, Instructional Designer
Science Group
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Group Manager
- Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
- Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
- Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Meteorologist
- Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists
- Brad Snyder, MSC/COMET Liaison
- Nicolas Major, MSC/COMET Liaison