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COMET Sponsors
The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- National Weather Service (NWS)
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
- Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA)
- NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
- National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
- Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
Project Contributors
Project Co-Lead / Instructional Design / Multimedia Authoring
- Dr. Alan Bol— UCAR/COMET
Project Co-Lead / Project Meteorologist
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET
Science Advisors
- CDR Robert Kiser — Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center (NAVMETOCPRODEVCEN)
- Staff at HQ AFWA/DNT 28th OWS Training Flight, Shaw AFB Marine Meteorology Division (NRL-MMD)
- Dr. Wendell Nuss — Naval Postgraduate School
Illustration / Multimedia Authoring
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Graphic Interface Design / Illustration
- Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET
Audio Production
- Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET
Audio Narration
- Dr. Greg Byrd — UCAR/COMET
Software Testing / Quality Assurance
- Michael Smith — UCAR/COMET
Copyright Administration
- Lorrie Fyffe — UCAR/COMET
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