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)
• 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

Program Manager, Project Lead

• Lon Goldstein – UCAR/COMET

Instructional Design

• Lon Goldstein – UCAR/COMET

Science Advisors

• Philippe Hensel – NOAA/NGS
• Dave Zilkoski – NOAA/NGS
• Brian Shaw – NOAA/NGS

Technical Reviewers

• Steve Hilla – NOAA/NGS
• Tom Soler – NOAA/NGS

Clearance Reviewers

• Vicki Childers – NOAA/NGS
• Dan Roman – NOAA/NGS
• Juliana Blackwell – NOAA/NGS

Graphics/Animations

• Steve Deyo – UCAR/COMET
• Sylvia Quesasa – UCAR/COMET
• Lon Goldstein – UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design

• Gary Pacheo – UCAR/COMET

Audio/Video Editing/Production

• Lon Goldstein – UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, April 2017

Director's Office

• Dr. Rich Jeffries, Director
• Dr. Greg Byrd, Deputy Director

Business Administration

• Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Assistant Director of Operations and Administration
• Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
• Tara Torres, Program Coordinator

IT Services and Production Services

• Tim Alberta, Assistant Director of IT and Production
• Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
• Steve Deyo, Graphic and 3D Designer
• Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
• Gary Pacheco, Web Designer and Developer
• Sylvia Quesada, Production Assistant
• Joey Rener, Software Engineer
• Malte Winkler, Software Engineer

International Program

• Paul Kucera, Project Manager
• Rosario Alfaro Ocampo, Translator/Meteorologist
• Bruce Muller, Project Manager
• David Russi, Spanish Translations
• Martin Steinson, Project Manager

Instructional Services

• Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
• Lon Goldstein, Instructional Designer
• Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer/Meteorologist
• Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
• Marianne Weingroff, Instructional Designer

Science Group

• Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
• Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
• Lindsay Johnson, Student Assistant
• Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
• Andrea Smith, Meteorologist
• Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
• Vanessa Vincente, Meteorologist