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Contributors

COMET Sponsors

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

• Air Force Weather (AFW)
• Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)
• European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
• 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)

Project Contributors

Principal Science Advisors

• Bob Henson — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
  Dr. Kevin Trenberth — National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• Bud Ward — Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media

Additional Science Contributors

• Christine Alex — NOAA/NWS
  Caspar Ammann — NCAR
  John M. Balbus — Environmental Defense
  Kenneth Graham — NOAA/NWS
  Jay Gulledge — Pew Center for Global Climate Change
  David Herring — NOAA Climate Office
  Diane Ives — The Kendeda Foundation
  Veronica Johnson — WRC-TV, NBC 4
  Edward Maibach — Center of Excellence in Climate Change Communication, George Mason University
  Ron McPherson - American Meteorological Society (AMS)
  Katie Mandes— Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  Frank Niepold— NOAA Climate Program Office
  Sean Potter — NOAA/NWS, Office of Communications
  Jason Samenow - EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Impacts Branch
  Anthony Socci — AMS
  Tom Steinfeldt — Pew Center for Global Climate Change
  Wendy Thomas — AMS
  John Toohey-Morales — Chief Meteorologist, NBC Telemundo  President, ClimaData Corporation
  Kris Wilson — Emory University
  Joe Witte - TV Meteorologist, NC 8, Washington DC

Project Lead / Instructional Design

• Dr. Vickie Johnson — UCAR/COMET

Science Writer

• Jennifer Frazer - UCAR/COMET

Graphics/Interface Design

• Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
• Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET

Multimedia Authoring

• Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET

Audio Editing/Production

• Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET

Audio Narration

• Dr. Greg Byrd — UCAR/COMET

COMET Staff, January 2009

Director

• Dr. Timothy Spangler

Deputy Director

• Dr. Joe Lamos

Administration

• Elizabeth Lessard, Administration and Business Manager
• Lorrie Alberta
• Michelle Harrison
• Hildy Kane

Hardware/Software Support and Programming

• Tim Alberta, Group Manager
• Bob Bubon
• James Hamm
• Ken Kim
• Mark Mulholland
• Wade Pentz, Student
• Jay Shollenberger, Student
• Malte Winkler

Instructional Designers

• Dr. Patrick Parrish, Senior Project Manager
• Dr. Alan Bol
• Lon Goldstein
• Bryan Guarente
• Dr. Vickie Johnson
• Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov
• Marianne Weingroff

Media Production Group

• Bruce Muller, Group Manager
• Steve Deyo
• Seth Lamos
• Brannan McGill
• Dan Riter
• Carl Whitehurst

Meteorologists/Scientists

• Dr. Greg Byrd, Senior Project Manager
• Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project 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
• Jim Murtha