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COMET Sponsors
The COMET® Program is 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)
Project Contributors
Project/Program Manager/Coordinator
- Dr. Elizabeth Page — UCAR/COMET
Project Lead/Instructional Design
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
Project Co-lead/Staff Scientist
- Amy Stevermer — UCAR/COMET
Technical Contributors
- Vanessa Vincente — CIRA/Colorado State University
- Sylvia Quesada — UCAR/COMET
Principal Science Advisors
- Gilles Fournier — Meteorological Service of Canada
- Frank Grooters — World Meteorological Organization
- Dean Lockett — World Meteorological Organization
- Stewart Taylor — U.K. Met Office
- Carl Weiss — U.S. National Weather Service (retired)
Additional Science Contributors
- Randy Baker — UPS Airlines
- Rick Curtis — Southwest Airlines
- Nicolas Major — Meteorological Service of Canada
- Rich Mamrosh — U.S. National Weather Service
- Marius Turpeinen — Aviation Consultant
- Stig Carlberg — World Meteorological Organization
Graphics/Animations
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design
- Gary Pacheco — UCAR/COMET
Audio/Video Editing/Production
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
COMET Staff, Fall/Winter 2014
Director's Office
- Dr. Rich Jeffries, Director
- Dr. Greg Byrd, Deputy Director
- Lili Francklyn, Business Development Specialist
Business Administration
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Group Manager
- Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
- Hildy Kane, Administrative Assistant
IT Services
- Tim Alberta, Group Manager
- Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
- Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
- Joey Rener, Student Assistant
- Malte Winkler, Software Engineer
Instructional 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
- Vickie Johnson, Instructional Designer (Casual)
- Gary Pacheco, Web Designer and Developer
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
- David Russi, Spanish Translations
- Andrea Smith, Meteorologist/Instructional Designer
- Marianne Weingroff, Instructional Designer
Science Group
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Group Manager
- Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
- Dr. Frank Bub, Oceanographer (Casual)
- Lis Cohen, Meteorologist (Casual)
- Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
- Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
- Nicolas Major, Visiting Meteorologist, Meteorological Services of Canada
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Meteorologist
- Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
- Vanessa Vincente, Visiting Meteorologist, CIRA/Colorado State University