The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:

Project Sponsors
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

COMET Sponsors
Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA)
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)
Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)

Principal Science Advisor
Dr. Marianne König — EUMETSAT

Associate Science Advisors
Patrick Dills  — UCAR/COMET
Dr. Volker Gärtner  — EUMETSAT
Dr. Jochen Kerkmann  — EUMETSAT
Dr. Hans-Joachim Lutz  — EUMETSAT
Philip Watts  — EUMETSAT
Dr. Dieter Klaes  — EUMETSAT

Project Lead
Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET

Instructional Design
Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET

Computer Graphics/Interface Design
Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET
Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring
Carl Whitehurst — UCAR/COMET

Audio Editing/Production
Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET

Audio Narration
Dr. Marianne König — EUMETSAT

COMET Staff

Director
Dr. Timothy Spangler

Deputy Director
Dr. Joe Lamos

Business Manager/Supervisor of Administration
Elizabeth Lessard

Administration
Lorrie Alberta
Michelle Harrison
Hildy Kane

Graphics/Media Production
Steve Deyo
Seth Lamos
Brennan McGill

Hardware/Software Support and Programming
Tim Alberta (Supervisor)
James Hamm
Ken Kim
Mark Mulholland
Wade Pentz (Student)
Dan Riter
Carl Whitehurst
Malte Winkler

Instructional Design
Dr. Patrick Parrish (Supervisor)
Dr. Alan Bol
Lon Goldstein
Bryan Guarente
Dr. Vickie Johnson
Bruce Muller
Dwight Owens (Alphapure Design Studio)
Marianne Weingroff

Meteorologists
Dr. Greg Byrd (Project Cluster Manager)
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire (Project Cluster Manager)
Dr. William Bua
Patrick Dills
Dr. Stephen Jascourt
Matthew Kelsch
Dolores Kiessling
Dr. Arlene Laing
Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
Amy Stevermer
Warren Rodie
Dr. Doug Wesley

Science Writer
Jennifer Frazer

Spanish Translations
David Russi

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

Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists
Phil Chadwick