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)
  • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Project Contributors

Senior Project Manager

  • Dr. Greg Byrd — UCAR/COMET

Project Lead

  • Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page — UCAR/COMET

Principal Science Advisor

  • Dr. Arlene Laing — UCAR/COMET

Additional Science Advisors

  • Travis Clement — New Vista High School
  • Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page — UCAR/COMET

Graphics/Interface Design

  • Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
  • Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring

  • Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
  • Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET
  • David Russi — UCAR/COMET
  • Marianne Weingroff — 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, Fall 2012

Director

  • Dr. Timothy Spangler

Deputy Director

  • Dr. Greg Byrd

Administration

  • Elizabeth Lessard, Administration and Business Manager
  • Lorrie Alberta
  • Michelle Harrison
  • Hildy Kane

Hardware/Software Support and Programming

  • Tim Alberta, Group Manager
  • Bob Bubon
  • Ken Kim
  • Mark Mulholland
  • Victor Taberski - Student Assistant
  • Chris Webber - Student Assistant
  • Malte Winkler

Instructional Designers

  • Dr. Alan Bol
  • Lon Goldstein
  • Bryan Guarente
  • Dr. Vickie Johnson
  • Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov
  • Marianne Weingroff

Media Production Group

  • Bruce Muller, Group Manager
  • Steve Deyo
  • Dan Riter
  • Carl Whitehurst

Meteorologists/Scientists

  • Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project Manager
  • Dr. William Bua
  • Patrick Dills
  • Matthew Kelsch
  • Dolores Kiessling
  • Dr. Arlene Laing
  • Dave Linder
  • Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
  • Amy Stevermer

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

  • Brad Snyder