Stephen Jessup
Assistant Professor
Earth and Space Sciences, Department of
Biography
Dr. Steve Jessup joined the faculty of the Department of Earth and Space Science at Columbus State University in 2021, where he currently serves as Assistant Professor of Meteorology. He teaches 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 involves interpreting a unique case of smoke during the solar eclipse of April 2024 and building a framework to explain the influence of terrain on non-supercell convective storms in the Hudson River Valley.
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