Project Sponsors
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
European Space Agency (ESA)
Centre National d'Etudes spatiales (CNES)

Sponsors
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Weather Service (NWS)
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA)
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
Environment Canada -Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)

Principal Science Advisor
Dr. Dieter Klaes (EUMETSAT)

Associate Science Advisors
Patrick Dills – UCAR/COMET
Volker Gärtner – EUMETSAT

Project Leads
Patrick Dills – UCAR/COMET
Marianne Weingroff – UCAR

Instructional Design
Marianne Weingroff – UCAR

Computer Graphics/Interface Design
Steve Deyo – UCAR/COMET
Heidi Godsil – UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring/Additional Instructional Design
Carl Whitehurst – UCAR/COMET

Audio Editing/Production
Seth Lamos – UCAR/COMET

Audio Narration
Dr. Dieter Klaes (EUMETSAT)

Software Testing/Quality Assurance
Mike Smith – UCAR/COMET

Copyrights Administration
Mike Smith – UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff:

Director
Dr. Timothy Spangler

Deputy Director
Dr. Joe Lamos

Business Manager/Supervisor of Administration
Elizabeth Lessard

Administration
Lorrie Alberta
Hildy Kane
Linda Korsgaard

Graphics/Media Production
Steve Deyo
Heidi Godsil
Seth Lamos

Hardware/Software Support and Programming
Tim Alberta (IT Manager)
James Hamm
Karl Hanzel
Ken Kim
Mark Mulholland
Dan Riter
Carl Whitehurst
Malte Winkler (student)

Instructional Design
Patrick Parrish (Production Manager)
Dr. Alan Bol
Lon Goldstein
Dr. Vickie Johnson
Bruce Muller
Dwight Owens
Dr. Sherwood Wang

Meteorologists
Dr. Greg Byrd (Project Cluster Manager)
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire (Project Cluster Manager)
Dr. William Bua
Patrick Dills
Tom Dulong
Kevin Fuell
Dr. Stephen Jascourt
Matthew Kelsch
Dolores Kiessling
Dr. Arlene Laing
Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
Dr. Doug Wesley

Software Testing/Quality Assurance/Copyrights Administration
Michael Smith (Coordinator)

Spanish Translations
David Russi

NOAA/National Weather Service - Forecast Decision Training Branch
Anthony Mostek (NWS COMET Branch Chief [acting] and Satellite Training Leader)
Dr. Richard Koehler (Hydrology Training Lead)
Brian Motta (IFPS Training)
Dr. Robert Rozumalski (SOO Science and Training Resource [SOO/STRC] Coordinator)
Shannon White (AWIPS Training)

Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists
Phil Chadwick
James Cummine

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