Sponsors Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Weather Service (NWS) – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Original FEMA/NWS Project Working Group Dr. Christopher R. Adams – Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) Brian Heckman – University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) William Massey – FEMA Max Mayfield – NWS John Peabody – FEMA Principal Science Advisor William Massey – FEMA Max Mayfield – NWS Project Leaders Victoria Johnson – UCAR/COMET Brian Heckman – UCAR/COMET Scientific Review Panel William Massey – FEMA Dr. Robert Smith – FEMA John Wilson – Lee County Division of Public Safety William Winn, Jr. – Beaufort County Emergency Management Department Assistance with Content and Review Dr. Christopher R. Adams – CIRA Todd Davison – FEMA Dr. Mark DeMaria – CIRA Rainer Dumbrowsky – NWS/NOAA John Guiney – NWS/NOAA Sam Isenberger - FEMA Brian Jarvenin – NWS/NOAA John Peabody – FEMA Dr. Ed Rappaport – NWS/NOAA Dr. Wilson Shaffer – NWS/NOAA Dave Sullivan – Denver Office of Emergency Preparedness Billy Wagner – Monroe County Emergency Management Donald Wernly – NWS/NOAA Instructional Designers Dr. Art Winterbauer – UCAR/COMET Victoria Johnson – UCAR/COMET Jason Douglas – UCAR/COMET COMET Staff Meteorologist Richard Cianflone – NWS/NOAA COMET Director Dr. Timothy Spangler – UCAR/COMET COMET Assistant Director for Education and Training Dr. Joseph Lamos – UCAR/COMET COMET Assistant Director for Information Technologies Susan Jesuroga – UCAR/COMET COMET Meteorologist Resources Group Head Dr. Gregory Byrd – UCAR/COMET Data Provided by FEMA National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) – NOAA NWS Tropical Prediction Center (TPC) – NOAA NWS – NOAA John F. Townsend – Sea Island Software, Inc. Photos Provided by FEMA Hurricane Hunters/Air Force Reserve NASA National Data Buoy Center National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) NHC – NOAA NOAA NWS – NOAA U. S. Department of Commerce U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Dr. Peter Black – NOAA Chauncy T. Hinman, photographer, care of Betty Hinman Jerry Jarrell – NHC/NOAA John Jensenius – NWS/NOAA Jonas Jordan – U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Martin R. Lerner – Insurers Technical Services, Inc. Alan McDuffie – U. S. Army Corps of Engineers William Massey – FEMA Max Mayfield – NHC/NOAA Rodger Menzies – U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Herbert S. Saffir – Saffir Consulting Engineers Evelyn Shanahan – photographer Additional Assistance in Data Collection Frank Lapore – NWS/NOAA Linda Kremkau – NWS/NOAA Dr. Will Shaffer – NWS/NOAA Beta Review Beaufort County Emergency Management Department Computer Graphics/Animation Steve Deyo – UCAR/COMET Heidi Godsil – UCAR/COMET Julee Syverson – UCAR/COMET Copyright Administration Lorrie Fyffe – UCAR/COMET Hanne Mauriello – UCAR/COMET Barb Petruzzi – UCAR/COMET Paul J. White – UCAR Editing Bonnie Slagel – UCAR/COMET Hardware/Software Support and Programming David Himes – UCAR/COMET Patrick Parrish – UCAR/COMET Dennis Ward – UCAR/COMET Multimedia Authoring Patrick Parrish – UCAR/COMET Dennis Ward – UCAR/COMET Software Testing/Quality Control Kay Levesque – UCAR/COMET Michael Smith – UCAR/COMET Sources Pielke, R.A., Jr. and R.A. Pielke Sr., 1997: Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society. Wiley & Sons, 279 pp. Simpson, R.H., 1954: Hurricanes. Scientific American, vol. 190. no. 6, pp. 32-37