Contributors
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)
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
To learn more about us, please visit the COMET website.
Project Contributors
Program Manager
- Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET
Project Lead/Instructional
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Primary Scientists
- Bryan Guarente — UCAR/COMET
- Andrea Smith — UCAR/COMET
Contributing Scientists
- Trevor Alcott — NOAA
- Dr. Bill Bua — UCAR/COMET
- Alessandro Chiariello — Eumetcal project (EUMETNET EIG)
- Pat Clarke — Irish Meteorological Service
- Normand Gagnon — MSC
- José Antonio García-Moya Zapata — AEMET (Spain)
- Dr. Anna Ghelli — ECMWF
- Dan Harris — United Kingdom Meteorological Office
- Wilfried Jacobs — Deutscher Wetterdienst (Germany)
- Jason Knight — MSC
- Kristians Paps — Latvia Weather Service
- Steven Ramsdale — United Kingdom Meteorological Office
- Dr. David M. Schultz — University of Manchester
- Brad Snyder — MSC
Graphics/Animations
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- Sylvia Quesada — UCAR/COMET
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design
- Gary Pacheco — UCAR/COMET
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
COMET Staff, March 2017
Director's Office
- Dr. Rich Jeffries, Director
- Dr. Greg Byrd, Deputy Director
Business Administration
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Assistant Director of Operations and Administration
- Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
- Tara Torres, Program Coordinator
IT Services and Production Services
- Tim Alberta, Assistant Director of IT and Production
- Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
- Steve Deyo, Graphic and 3D Designer
- Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
- Gary Pacheco, Web Designer and Developer
- Sylvia Quesada, Production Assistant
- Joey Rener, Software Engineer
- Malte Winkler, Software Engineer
International Program
- Paul Kucera, Project Manager
- Rosario Alfaro Ocampo, Translator/Meteorologist
- Bruce Muller, Project Manager
- David Russi, Spanish Translations
- Martin Steinson, Project Manager
Instructional Services
- Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
- Lon Goldstein, Instructional Designer
- Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer/Meteorologist
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
- Marianne Weingroff, Instructional Designer
Science Group
- Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
- Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
- Lindsay Johnson, Student Assistant
- Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
- Andrea Smith, Meteorologist
- Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
- Vanessa Vincente, Meteorologist