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
• Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
• NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
• NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• 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

• Matthew Kelsch — UCAR/COMET

Project Lead

• Matthew Kelsch — UCAR/COMET

Instructional Design

• Alan Bol — UCAR/COMET

Science Advisors

• James Brown — Hydrologic Solutions Limited
• Ernie Wells — NOAA’s National Weather Service
• Hank Herr — NOAA’s National Weather Service
• Mark Fresch — NOAA’s National Weather Service
• Laurie Hogan — NOAA’s National Weather Service
• Eric Jones — NOAA’s National Weather Service
• Nicole McGavock — NOAA’s National Weather Service
• Tony Anderson — NOAA’s National Weather Service

Graphics/Animations

• Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design

• Gary Pacheco — UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, May 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