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
Principal Science Advisor
- Cameron Henderson — Bureau of Meteorology of Australia
Project Lead/Instructional Design/Interface Design/Development
- Bryan Guarente — UCAR/COMET
COMET Staff, Summer 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
- Joey Rener, Student Assistant
- Malte Winkler, Software Engineer
Instruction and Media Services
- Bruce Muller, Group Manager
- Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
- Steve Deyo, Graphic Designer
- Lon Goldstein, Instructional Designer
- Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer
- 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
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
- Nicolas Major, MSC/COMET Liaison