Contributors

COMET Sponsors

The COMET^® Program is 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)

Project Contributors

Project/Program Manager/Coordinator

• Dr. Alan Bol — UCAR/COMET
• Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page — UCAR/COMET

Project Lead/Instructional Design

• Amy Stevermer — UCAR/COMET

Principal Science Advisor/Script Author

• Sean Urban — U.S. Naval Observatory

Additional Science/Script Contributors

• Capt. Brian Connon — U.S. Naval Observatory
• QMC (SW/AW) Tim Sheedy — U.S. Naval Observatory
• Dr. Susan Stewart — U.S. Naval Observatory
• Dr. George Kaplan — U.S. Naval Observatory
• Dr. Nancy Oliversen — U.S. Naval Observatory
• Catherine Hohenkerk — HM Nautical Almanac Office
• Dr. Susan Nelmes — HM Nautical Almanac Office

Graphics/Animations

• Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design

• Gary Pacheco — UCAR/COMET

Audio/Video Editing/Production

• Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
• Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
• David Russi — UCAR/COMET

USNO Videography/Editing

• Jeff Cook — Cook Studios

Assessment Development

• Sarah Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET

Audio Narration

• Hildy Kane — UCAR/COMET

Technical/Miscellaneous Assistance

• Dr. Richard Koehler — NOAA/NWS
• Sylvia Quesada — UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, Winter 2014/2015

Director's Office

• Dr. Rich Jeffries, Director
• Dr. Greg Byrd, Deputy Director
• Lili Francklyn, Business Development Specialist

Business Administration

• Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Group Manager
• Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
• Hildy Kane, Administrative Assistant

IT Services

• Tim Alberta, Group Manager
• Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
• Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
• Joey Rener, Student Assistant
• Malte Winkler, Software Engineer

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
• Dr. Vickie Johnson, Instructional Designer (Casual)
• Gary Pacheco, Web Designer and Developer
• Sarah Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer (Casual)
• Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
• David Russi, Spanish Translations
• Andrea Smith, Meteorologist/Instructional Designer
• Marianne Weingroff, Instructional Designer

Science Group

• Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Group Manager
• Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
• Dr. Frank Bub, Oceanographer (Casual)
• Lis Cohen, Meteorologist (Casual)
• Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
• Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
• Nicolas Major, Visiting Meteorologist, Meteorological Services of Canada
• Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Meteorologist
• Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
• Vanessa Vincente, Visiting Meteorologist, CIRA/Colorado State University