Contributors


Sponsors
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Weather Service (NWS)
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA)
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)

Additional Funding for Accessible Versions
The Citizens of Lee County, Florida

Principal Safety and Preparedness Advisors
Brandon Bolinski — FEMA
Daniel Brown — National Hurricane Center (NHC/NOAA)
Rebecca Jennings — FEMA
Dr. Chris Landsea — NHC/NOAA
Brock Long — FEMA (now with Alabama Emergency. Management Agency)
Dr. Rocky Lopes — American Red Cross
William Massey — FEMA (now with Dewberry)

Principal Science Advisors
Dr. Mark DeMaria — NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)/Office of Research and Applications (ORA)
Dr. Steve Lyons — The Weather Channel (now with NWS)
John Ogren — NWS

Educational Consulting/Content Review
Teresa Barone-Szymanowski — Thompson School District
Diane Garcia — MAST Academy Outreach Specialist
Diane Jarvinen — Dade County Public Schools (retired)

Project Lead/Instructional Design
Dr. Vickie Johnson — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET)

Senior Project Manager
Dr. Patrick Parrish — UCAR/COMET

Lead Instructional Designer
Dwight Owens — UCAR/COMET

Meteorology Support
Richard Cianflone — NWS/NOAA
Patrick Dills — UCAR/COMET
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET

Computer Graphics/Animation
Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET
Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET
Dwight Owens — UCAR/COMET
Carl Whitehurst — UCAR/COMET

Photographs and Images Provided by
FEMA
NASA
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
NHC — NOAA
NOAA
NWS — NOAA
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Richard Cianflone — photographer
Chauncy T. Hinman, photographer, care of Betty Hinman
Jonas Jordan — U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Martin R. Lerner — Insurers Technical Services, Inc.
William Massey — FEMA
Max Mayfield — NHC/NOAA
Evelyn Shanahan — photographer

Sound Effects Provided by
Richard Cianflone — NWS/NOAA
Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Dwight Owens — UCAR/COMET
Carl Whitehurst — UCAR/COMET

Data Provided by
NWS/NOAA
NESDIS/ORA

Multimedia Authoring
Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Dwight Owens — UCAR/COMET
Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET
Carl Whitehurst — UCAR/COMET

Audio Editing/Production
Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET

Narrators
Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET
Kay Levesque — UCAR/COMET
Dr. Steve Lyons — NWS
Chris Newby — Heatherwood Elementary School
Max Parris — UCAR/COMET

Quality Assurance
Linda Korsgaard — UCAR/COMET
Kay Levesque — UCAR/COMET
Mike Smith — UCAR/COMET

Copyright Administration
Lorrie Alberta — UCAR/COMET
Michelle Harrison — UCAR/COMET

Student Assistant
Eileen Kuo — 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 2002

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
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