Contributors
COMET Sponsors
The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:
- Air Force Weather (AFW)
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
- Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
- National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)
- National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
- NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
Project Contributors
Principal Science Advisors
- Robbie Berg — National Hurricane Center
Brandon Bolinski — Federal Emergency Management Agency
Daniel Brown — National Hurricane Center
Rebecca Jennings — Federal Emergency Management Agency
Dr. Chris Landsea — National Hurricane Center
Project Lead / Instructional Design
- Dr. Vickie Johnson — UCAR/COMET
Instructional Design / Multimedia Authoring
- Bryan Guarente — UCAR/COMET
Graphics/Interface Design
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET
Senior Project Manager
- Dr. Patrick Parrish — UCAR/COMET
Contributors to the First Edition
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Dr. Christopher R. Adams
Richard Cianflone
Todd Davison
Dr. Mark DeMaria
Rainer Dumbrowsky
John Guiney
Brian Heckman
Sam Isenberger
Brian Jarvenin - William Massey
Max Mayfield
John Peabody
Dr. Ed Rappaport
Dr. Wilson Shaffer
Dr. Robert Smith
Dave Sullivan
Billy Wagner
Donald Wernly
John Wilson
William Winn, Jr.
Dr. Art Winterbauer
COMET Staff, May 2010
Director
- Dr. Timothy Spangler
Deputy Director
- Dr. Joe Lamos
Administration
- Elizabeth Lessard, Administration and Business Manager
- Lorrie Alberta
- Michelle Harrison
- Hildy Kane
- Ellen Martinez
Hardware/Software Support and Programming
- Tim Alberta, Group Manager
- Bob Bubon
- James Hamm
- Ken Kim
- Mark Mulholland
- 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
- Seth Lamos
- Brannan McGill
- Dan Riter
- Carl Whitehurst
Meteorologists/Scientists
- Dr. Greg Byrd, Senior Project Manager
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project Manager
- Dr. William Bua
- Patrick Dills
- Dr. Stephen Jascourt
- Matthew Kelsch
- Dolores Kiessling
- Dr. Arlene Laing
- Dave Linder
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
- Amy Stevermer
- Warren Rodie
Science Writer
- Jennifer Frazer
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
- Phil Chadwick