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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)
Project Contributors
Senior Project Manager
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET
Project Lead
- Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
Instructional Design
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Principal Science Advisors
- Tom Lee — Naval Research Laboratory Monterey (NRL), Monterey
- Patrick Dills — COMET/UCAR
Additional Science Contributors
- Scott Bachmeier — CIMSS, Wisconsin
- Phillip Bothwell — NOAA Storm Prediction Center
- Mike Fromm — NRL, Washington, DC
- Ed Hyer — NRL
- Jamie Kibler — NOAA's Satellite Analysis Branch
- Arunas Kuciauskas — NRL, Monterey
- Don Hilger — CIRA, Fort Collins, CO
- Steve Miller — NRL, Monterey
- Don Moore — National Weather Service, Billings, MT
- Elaine Prins — CIMSS, Wisconsin
- Brad Quayle — USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center
- Mark Ruminski — NOAA's Satellite Analysis Branch
- Casey Teske — NOAA University of Montana
- Doug Westphal — NRL
Graphics/Animations
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design
- Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
2019 Update Contributors
- Amy Stevermer — UCAR/COMET
- Patrick Dills — UCAR/COMET
- Jim Gurka — NOAA/NESDIS
- Jorel Torres — CIRA
COMET Staff, Spring 2013
Director
- Dr. Rich Jeffries
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
- 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