1. www.meted.ucar.edu The COMET ® Program The COMET Program Twenty-five Successful Years Dr. Elizabeth Page 22 October 2015

2. www.meted.ucar.edu The COMET Program Created in 1990 to support the modernization of NOAA’s National Weather Service (WSR-88D Doppler radar interpretation, forecast processes, training assessment) 2

3. www.meted.ucar.edu 1992 1996 1997 http://meted.ucar.edu 3 Evolution of Delivery Platforms

4. www.meted.ucar.edu MetEd Website 2015 4 www.meted.ucar.edu Online Lessons: 350+ English, 111 Spanish, 38 French 750+ hours of self-directed distance learning material Registered Users: 400,000+ growing at 5,000-6,000 per month ~100,000 international, representing most national met services ~100,000 students representing 1,500+ universities 52, 000+/yr. returning users who do >5.7 hours of online learning

5. www.meted.ucar.edu Since 2007/beginning of website registration: over 1.8 million hours of online sessions 5

6. www.meted.ucar.edu 6 Registered MetEd Users 400,000+ registered users (Sept 2015)

7. www.meted.ucar.edu Awards! 2004 Louis J. Battan Authors Award, K-12 Category for Hurricane Strike!™ For Polar Lows Ungava Bay Case Study Bronze Medal for Boundary Detection & Convection Initiation 2005 Honorable Mention in the non- interactive media category of the Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge American Geophysical Union Excellence in Geophysical Education Award 2006 2000 Hurricane Conference Outstanding Achievement Award for Community Hurricane Preparedness 2009 National Weather Association Public Education Award 2008 NSF and the Journal Science International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Semi-Finalist Finalist Recognition International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2009 Recognized with the 2010 Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Certificate of Merit for “Excellence in Content” 7

8. www.meted.ucar.edu Long-term Success 8 Equal partnership of science and instruction Focus on quality in balance with efficiency Adapting to new technology Working in close partnership with our constituents

9. www.meted.ucar.edu Annual budget: ~$4.3 million ($5.5-6 million for FY15) Primary Sponsors: NOAA NESDIS, NOAA NWS, NOAA NOS, Bureau of Reclamation, US Navy NMOC, MSC Canada, EUMETSAT, BoM Australia, USACE Dr. Richard Jeffries, Director and Principal Investigator 9 Staff of 24: Subject matter experts (mets, nwp, hydrologists) Instructional designers Web and application developers Graphic artists Spanish translator/coordinator IT and administrative support staff

10. www.meted.ucar.edu Web-based 10 COMET Distance Learning Offerings Self- directed Lessons Recorded Lectures Self- directed Courses Facilitated Courses and Webinars Learning and Media Object Resources DVDs for low-bandwidth regions

11. www.meted.ucar.edu COMET Services: Self-directed, web-based instruction 15 minute to 2+ hour in length High quality instructional design and scientific integrity Media rich design Interactive elements Includes self-assessment 11 meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1159

12. www.meted.ucar.edu Recent COMET Lessons 12

13. www.meted.ucar.edu David Russi, Spanish Translator - COMET Claudio Caponi, Hydrologist - WMO 13

14. www.meted.ucar.edu COMET Services: Facilitating Virtual and Residence Courses 14 8-10 weeks of residence and virtual courses per year Virtual courses (e.g. Climate Variability and Change, Hydrologic Impacts Under Climate Change) Residence courses (e.g. Winter Weather, Mountain Weather, COMAP) Facilitated meetings and workshops courses.comet.ucar.edu/

15. www.meted.ucar.edu MSC/COMET Winter Weather Course Meteorological Service of Canada KMA/COMET Mountain Meteorology Course 15

16. www.meted.ucar.edu Evolving Instructional and Media Design Services 16 Media development (i.e. database with 37,000+ elements) Video, scripting and production Needs and gap analysis

17. www.meted.ucar.edu Steve Deyo, 3D Graphic Artist 17

18. www.meted.ucar.edu MetEd Upgrades 18 New lesson template with enhanced cross-platform and mobile accessibility Enhanced quiz transcripts Ability to list and search for select non-MetEd resources Tighter integration with YouTube

19. www.meted.ucar.edu 19 Outreach Program Outreach is back! Partners Projects funded by GOES-R and National Weather Service Cooperative and/or Partners Projects funded by the National Water Center

20. www.meted.ucar.edu 20 Questions/Discussion

21. www.meted.ucar.edu 21 Dr. Elizabeth Page Assistant Director epage@ucar.edu Dr. Rich Jeffries Director raj@ucar.edu Contact Information www.meted.ucar.edu / www.comet.ucar.edu

22. www.meted.ucar.edu 22 COMET/MetEd YouTube Channel: 57 videos 417 subscribers 47,611 videos viewed COMET/MetEd Facebook Group: 2690+ members New members joining daily Daily postings by members COMETWx Flickr Group: 415 photos 72 members AddThis Sharing Widget Added to MetEd lesson description pages 22 Oct 2013 3,064 shares leading to 10,830 clicks to content Miscellaneous Social Networking Stats