Directory Profiles
Stephen Jessup
Associate Professor
Earth and Space Sciences, Department of
Biography
Dr. Steve Jessup joined the faculty of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences
at Columbus State University in August 2021. He currently serves as Associate Professor
of Atmospheric Science, teaching courses in Understanding the Weather, Meteorology,
Global and Climate Change, Hydrometeorology, and Environmental Air Quality. Through
his research, he seeks to gain new insights into familiar problems in meteorology.
His current research projects include exploring the relationship among aerosol growth,
latent heating, and radiation via his proposed Subcritical Aerosol-Moisture Feedback;
developing a new tool to analyze soundings associated with severe weather environments
(the Meteorological Process Mapper); and building a framework to explain the influence
of terrain on non-supercell convective storms in the Hudson River Valley. His Substack
blog, A Meteorological Cosmology, is available at https://ametcosmology.substack.com/
Prior to joining the faculty at CSU, Dr. Jessup taught at SUNY Brockport in western
New York. He has experience as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and
Princeton University. He holds three atmospheric science degrees (Ph.D., 2011; M.S.,
2006; B.S., 2002) from Cornell University.
Academic Areas
Meteorology
Mesoscale meteorology
Boundary layer meteorology
Research Interests
Convective storms
Terrain-convection interactions
Boundary layer meteorology
Convective initiation
