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.

Project Contributors

Webinar Presenter/Subject Matter Expert

• Dr. Scott Rudlosky, Satellite Climate Studies Branch and Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellite (CICS-Maryland)
• Dr. Geoffrey Stano, ENSCO, Inc. and NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT)

Project Leads

• Amy Stevermer, UCAR/COMET
• Lis Cohen, UCAR/COMET
• Matt Kelsch, UCAR/COMET

Video Recording/Production

• Steve Deyo, UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design

• Gary Pacheco, UCAR/COMET
• Sylvia Quesada, UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, October 2017

Director's Office

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

Business Administration

• Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
• 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
• Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer

International Programs

• Rosario Alfaro Ocampo, Translator/Meteorologist
• Bruce Muller, Project Manager
• 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
• Sylvia Quesada, Production Assistant

Science Group

• Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
• Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
• Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer/Meteorologist
• Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
• Erin Regan, Student Assistant
• Andrea Smith, Meteorologist
• Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
• Vanessa Vincente, Meteorologist