COMET Sponsors

MetEd and the COMET® Program are a part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's (UCAR's) Community Programs (UCP) and are 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)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

To learn more about us, please visit the COMET website.

The Instrumentation and Measurement of Atmospheric Parameters training series has been made possible by support from the National Science Foundation (NCAR Award #1642735 and Millersville University Award #1642643).

Project Contributors

Project Manager

• Alison Rockwell, NCAR/EOL

Principal Science Contributor

• Dr. William Cooper, NCAR/EOL

Science Advisors

• Dr. Richard Clark, Millersville University
• Dr. Christina McCluskey, NCAR/EOL
• Dr. Jothiram Vivekanandan, NCAR/EOL

Additional Science Reviewers

• Dr. Robert Rauber, University of Illinois
• Dr. Holger Vömel, NCAR/EOL

COMET Project Lead

• Amy Stevermer, UCAR/COMET

Instructional Design

• Tony Mancus, UCAR/COMET
• Amy Stevermer, UCAR/COMET

Graphics/Animations

• Steve Deyo, UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design

• Gary Pacheco, UCAR/COMET
• Tyler Winstead, UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, February 2020

Director's Office

• Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Director
• Tim Alberta, Assistant Director Operations and IT
• Dr. Paul Kucera, Assistant Director International Programs
• Dr. Wendy Gram, Implementation Manager

Business Administration

• Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
• Auliya McCauley-Hartner, Administrative Assistant
• Tara Torres, Program Coordinator

IT Services

• Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
• Joshua Hepp, Student Assistant
• Joey Rener, Software Engineer
• Malte Winkler, Software Engineer

Instructional Services

• Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
• Tony Mancus, Instructional Designer
• Sarah Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
• Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer

International Programs

• David Russi, Translations Coordinator
• Martin Steinson, Project Manager

Production and Media Services

• Steve Deyo, Graphic and 3D Designer
• Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
• Gary Pacheco, Web Designer and Developer

Science Group

• Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
• Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer/Meteorologist
• Adam Hirsch, Meteorologist
• Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
• Andrea Smith, Meteorologist
• Amy Stevermer, Scientist/Instructional Designer
• Vanessa Vincente, Meteorologist