Sponsors National Weather Service (NWS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) Principal Science Advisors Dr. W. Paul Menzel – Chief, Advance Satellite Products Project, Office of Research and Applications/NESDIS Dr. James P. W. Purdom – Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) Timothy Schmit – Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)/NESDIS Associate Science Advisors Scott Bachmeier – CIMSS Patrick Dills – UCAR/COMET Anthony Mostek – NWS/COMET Project Lead Carl Whitehurst – UCAR/COMET Instructional Designer Dr. Sherwood Wang – UCAR/COMET Project Meteorologist Patrick Dills – UCAR/COMET Multimedia Authoring/Additional Instructional Design Carl Whitehurst – UCAR/COMET Audio Editing/Production Seth Lamos – UCAR/COMET Computer Graphics/Animation Steve Deyo – UCAR/COMET Heidi Godsil – UCAR/COMET Software Testing/Quality Assurance Michael Smith – UCAR/COMET Copyright Administration Lorrie Fyffe – UCAR/COMET Data Provided by CIMSS – University of Wisconsin, Madison CIRA – Colorado State University National Center for Numerical Environmental Prediction (NCEP) NESDIS – NOAA NWS – NOAA Voiceover Narration Tia Marlier – Garkie Communications, Inc. COMET Staff Director Dr. Timothy Spangler Deputy Director Dr. Joe Lamos Meteorologist Resources Group Head Dr. Greg Byrd Business Manager/Supervisor of Administration Elizabeth Lessard Administration Penina Frager Lorrie Fyffe Bonnie Slagel Graphics/Media Production Steve Bollinger (Contract Employee) Steve Deyo Heidi Godsil Seth Lamos Dan Riter (Contract Employee) Hardware/Software Support and Programming Steve Drake (Supervisor) Tim Alberta David Ellis (Student) James Hamm Karl Hanzel Ken Kim Eileen Kuo (Student) Max Parris (Student) Carl Whitehurst Instructional Design Patrick Parrish (Supervisor) Dr. Alan Bol Dr. Vickie Johnson Bruce Muller Dr. Sherwood Wang Meteorologists Dr. William Bua Patrick Dills Kevin Fuell Jonathan Heyl (Student) Dr. Stephen Jascourt Matthew Kelsch Dolores Kiessling Wendy Schreiber-Abshire Dr. Doug Wesley Software Testing/Quality Assurance Michael Brennan (Student) Michael Smith (Coordinator) National Weather Service COMET Branch Brian Motta Anthony Mostek (National Satellite Training Coordinator) Elizabeth Mulvihill Page Dr. Robert Rozumalski (SOO/SAC Coordinator) Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists Peter Lewis Garry Toth