Contributors

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:

To learn more about us, please visit the COMET website.

Project Contributors

Program Managers
  • Bruce Muller
  • Vesa Nietosvaara - EUMETSAT
Project Leads
  • Bryan Guarente
  • Marianne Weingroff
Instructional Design
  • Bryan Guarente
  • Marianne Weingroff
Science Advisors
  • Vesa Nietosvaara - EUMETSAT
  • Mark Higgins - EUMETSAT
  • Ian Mills - EUMETSAT
  • Andrea Smith - COMET
Graphics/Animations
  • Sylvia Quesada - COMET
  • Steve Deyo - COMET
  • Lindsay Johnson - COMET
Multimedia Authoring/Interface Design
  • Gary Pacheco - COMET

COMET Staff, December 2017

Director's Office
  • Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, Director
  • Tim Alberta, Assistant Director Operations and IT
  • Paul Kucera, Assistant Director International Programs
Business Administration
  • Lorrie Alberta, Administrator
  • Tara Torres, Program Coordinator
IT Services
  • Bob Bubon, Systems Administrator
  • Joshua Hepp, Student Assistant
  • Joey Rener, Software Engineer
  • Malte Winkler, Software Engineer
Instructional Services
  • Dr. Alan Bol, Scientist/Instructional Designer
  • Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, Instructional Designer
International Programs
  • Rosario Alfaro Ocampo, Translator/Meteorologist
  • Bruce Muller, Project Manager
  • David Russi, Translations Coordinator
  • Martin Steinson, Project Manager
Production and Media Services
  • Steve Deyo, Graphic and 3D Designer
  • Dolores Kiessling, Software Engineer
  • Gary Pacheco, Web Designer and Developer
  • Sylvia Quesada, Production Assistant
Science Group
  • Dr. William Bua, Meteorologist
  • Patrick Dills, Meteorologist
  • Bryan Guarente, Instructional Designer/Meteorologist
  • Matthew Kelsch, Hydrometeorologist
  • Erin Regan, Student Assistant
  • Andrea Smith, Meteorologist
  • Amy Stevermer, Meteorologist
  • Vanessa Vincente, Meteorologist