Contributors

COMET Sponsors

The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:

  • 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/Instructional Design

  • Dr. Patrick Parrish — UCAR/COMET

Project Scientist/Instructional Design

  • Amy Stevermer— UCAR/COMET

Science Writer

  • Jennifer Frazer — UCAR/COMET

Contributing Instructional Designers

  • Dr. Alan Bol — UCAR/COMET
  • Jennifer Cohen — UCAR/COMET (Intern)
  • Dr. Vickie Johnson — UCAR/COMET

Project Advisors

Teachers

  • Gary Cooper — Retired, Alaska
  • David Hayes — Mexia Junior High, Texas
  • Jennifer Lowary — O'Connell Middle School, Colorado

Subject Matter Experts

  • Gerard Fryer — NOAA/NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
  • Stan Gibson — City of Coos Bay
  • Glenda Hales — Coos County Emergency Management
  • Jeanne Johnson — Disaster Preparedness Solutions
  • William Knight — NOAA/NWS West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (Retired)
  • Cindi Preller — NOAA/NWS Tsunami Program Manager, Alaska Region
  • Christa Von Hillebrandt-Andrade — NOAA/NWS Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program
  • Paul Whitmore — NOAA/NWS West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
  • Brian Yanagi — International Tsunami Information Centre (ITIC)

Additional Project Resources

Graphics/Interface Design

  • Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
  • Michelle Harrison — UCAR/COMET
  • Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET
  • Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Audio Production

  • Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET

Audio/Video Editing/Production

  • Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
  • Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET

Audio Narration

Student Characters

  • Emma Breitman
  • Haydon Kiessling
  • Cooper Lajeunesse
  • Kelly Muller
  • Leah Muller
  • Chris Webber – UCAR/COMET (Student)

Additional Narration

  • Greg Byrd — UCAR/COMET
  • Patrick Dills — UCAR/COMET
  • Jennifer Frazer — UCAR/COMET
  • Bryan Guarente — UCAR/COMET
  • Michelle Harrison — UCAR/COMET
  • Hildy Kane — UCAR/COMET
  • Matt Kelsch — UCAR/COMET
  • Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
  • Arlene Laing— UCAR/COMET
  • Dave Linder — UCAR/COMET
  • Patrick Parrish — UCAR/COMET
  • Russ Rew — UCAR/Unidata
  • Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET
  • Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
  • David Russi — UCAR/COMET
  • Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET

Photography

  • Joseph Connelly
  • John De Mello

COMET HTML Integration Team 2021

  • Tim Alberta — Project Manager
  • Dolores Kiessling — Project Lead
  • Steve Deyo — Graphic Artist
  • Ariana Kiessling — Web Developer
  • Gary Pacheco — Lead Web Developer
  • David Russi — Translations
  • Tyler Winstead — Web Developer

COMET Staff, Summer 2011

Director

  • Dr. Timothy Spangler

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. Patrick Parrish, Senior Project Manager
  • Dr. Alan Bol
  • Maria Frostic
  • 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

  • Dr. Greg Byrd, Senior Project Manager
  • Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project Manager
  • Dr. William Bua
  • Patrick Dills
  • Matthew Kelsch
  • Dolores Kiessling
  • Dr. Cody Kirkpatrick
  • 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