Contributors
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COMET Sponsors
The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:
- Air Force Weather (AFW)
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
- Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
- National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)
- National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
- NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
Project Contributors
Project Lead
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
Instructional Design
- Pat Parrish — UCAR/COMET
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
Principal Science Advisors
- Kathy-Ann Caesar � Caribbean Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology
- Paul Bugeac — Romanian Air Traffic Services Administration – ROMATSA
- Kyle Fougere — Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
- Michael Graf — NOAA
- Goama Ilboudo — Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation Aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar-(ASECNA)
- Kent Johnson — MSC
- Dr. Arlene Laing — UCAR/COMET
- Warren Roddie — UCAR/COMET
Contributors to First Edition
- Dr. Alan Bol — UCAR/COMET
- CDR Berdequez — Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center (NAVMETOCPRODEVCEN)
- Richard Cianflone — NWS COMET Branch
- Dr. Paul Croft — Jackson State Univ., Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences
- Paul Croft — Mississippi State University
- Roger Deslandes — BoM
- Tom Dulong — UCAR/COMET
- Phil Dutton — NWS CWSU Anchorage AK
- Gary Ellrod — NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
- Ron Englebretson — Naval Research Laboratory - Monterey
- Mike Graf — NWS Aviation Services Branch
Jim Gurka — NESDIS - Dustin Harbage — NWS Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO) Jackson KY
- Dr. Vickie Johnson — UCAR/COMET
- Matt Kelsch — UCAR/COMET
Brian Lamarre — NWS WSFO Corpus Christi TX - Monica Long — BoM
- Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET
- Dr. Wendell Nuss — Naval Postgraduate School
- Dwight Owens — UCAR/COMET
- Walter Strach — NWS Center Weather Servuce Unit (CWSU) Oakland CA
Chris Strager — NWS WSFO Pittsburgh PA - Staff at HQ AFWA/DNT 28th OWS Training Flight — Shaw AFB
Christa Tucker — NWS Aviation Weather Center
- Kirsty Turner — Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)
- Dr. Doug Wesley — UCAR/COMET
- Stanley Zlochen — AFWA
Graphics/Interface Design
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- and/or
- Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET
Multimedia Authoring
- Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET
- David Russi — UCAR/COMET
- Carl Whitehurst — UCAR/COMET
Audio Editing/Production
- Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET
Senior Project Manager
- Pat Parrish — UCAR/COMET
COMET HTML Integration Team 2020
- Tim Alberta — Project Manager
- Dolores Kiessling — Project Lead
- Steve Deyo — Graphic Artist
- Gary Pacheco — Lead Web Developer
- David Russi — Translations
- Gretchen Throop Williams — Web Developer
- Tyler Winstead — Web Developer
COMET Staff, Summer 2010
Director
- Dr. Timothy Spangler
Deputy Director
- Dr. Joe Lamos
Administration
- Elizabeth Lessard, Administration and Business Manager
- Lorrie Alberta
- Michelle Harrison
- Hildy Kane
- Ellen Martinez
Hardware/Software Support and Programming
- Tim Alberta, Group Manager
- Bob Bubon
- James Hamm
- 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
- Seth Lamos
- Brannan McGill
- Dan Riter
- Carl Whitehurst
Meteorologists/Scientists
- Dr. Greg Byrd, Senior Project Manager
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project Manager
- Dr. William Bua
- Patrick Dills
- Dr. Stephen Jascourt
- Matthew Kelsch
- Dolores Kiessling
- Dr. Arlene Laing
- Dave Linder
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
- Amy Stevermer
- Warren Rodie
Science Writer
- Jennifer Frazer
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
- Phil Chadwick