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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
Navy Projects Coordinator
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page — UCAR/COMET
Project Lead / Instructional Design
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
Project Lead / Project Scientist
- Amy Stevermer — UCAR/COMET
Science Contributor
- Andrea Smith — UCAR/COMET
Principal Science Advisors
- AGCS (IDW/AW/SW) Jed Johansen — US Navy (USN), FWC Norfolk, SGOT
- AGC (IDW/AW/SW) William Davis — USN, FWC Norfolk, SGOT
- AGCS (IDW/AW/SW) Amador (AJ) Reyna — USN, FWC Norfolk, USN Retired
- AG2 (AW/SW) Kelin Ferguson — USN, FWC Norfolk, SGOT
- AGCS (IDW/AW/SW) David Armes — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AGCS (IDW/AW/SW) Eric Windell — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AGC (IDW/AW/SW) Luis Lopez — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG1 (IDW/AW/SW) David Bernhard — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (AW) Marcus Foudy — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (AW) Nicholas Gottwald — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (IDW/AW) Madison Jones — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (IDW/AW/SW) Kyle Simkins — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (AW/SW) Trenton Marshall — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG3 (IDW/AW) Megan Morehouse — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG3 (IDW/AW) Yu Sun — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (AW) Joshua Gaskill — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- AG2 (AW/SW) Jared Dayoub — USN, FWC San Diego, SGOT
- Mr. Derren Duburguet — Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Mr. Carl Miles — CISO, CNATTU Keesler
- Mr. Leonard Caruso — ISS, 335TRS/TRR Keesler
Science and Logistics Support
- Dr. Michael Ryan — USN, CNMOC N7
- Captain William Nisley — USN, CNMOC N3
- LCDR Tony DePlama — USN, CNMOC, N7M
- Captain Raymond Delgado — USN, Commanding Officer, FWC Norfolk
- Captain Gregory Ulses — USN, Commanding Officer, FWC San Diego
- Captain Fredrick Nielsen — USN, Commanding Officer, USS Kearsarge (LHD3)
- LCDR Casey Gon — USN, USS Kearsarge
- AGCM (IDW/AW/SW) Brian Wells — USN, Command Master Chief, Naval Oceanography Operations Command
- AG2 Miranda Clay — USN, USS Kearsarge
- Mr. Daniel Banks — USN, NMOPDC COMET Liaison
- Dr. Nancy Baker — Naval Reserach Laboratory
- Dr. Rich Jeffries — UCAR/COMET
Graphics/Animations
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Additional Graphics Production
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design
- Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET
- Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
- Amy Stevermer — UCAR/COMET
Drill Learning Tool Development
- Malte Winkler — UCAR/COMET
Videography/Photography
- MC2 Tamara Vaughn — USN, USS Kearsarge
- MC3 Travis Diperna — USN, USS Kearsarge
Audio/Video Editing/Production
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- David Russi — UCAR/COMET
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Audio/Video Narration
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page — UCAR/COMET
- AG2 (AW/SW) Kelin Ferguson — USN, FWC Norfolk, SGOT
COMET Staff, Winter 2014
Director
- Dr. Rich Jeffries
Deputy Director
- Dr. Greg Byrd
Business Administration
- Elizabeth Lessard, Business Manager
- Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
- Hildy Kane, Administrative Assistant
IT Services
- Tim Alberta, Group Manager
- Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
- Malte Winkler, Software Engineer
- Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
- Joey Rener, Student Assistant
Instructional and Media Services
- Bruce Muller, Group Manager
- Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
- Steve Deyo, Graphic and 3D Designer
- Lon Goldstein, Instructional Designer
- Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer
- Dan Riter, Software Engineer
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
- David Russi, Spanish Translations
- Marianne Weingroff, Instructional Designer
Science Group
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Group Manager
- Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
- Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
- Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Meteorologist
- Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists
- Brad Snyder, MSC/COMET Liaison
- Nicolas Major, MSC/COMET Liaison