Steven Schmidt

Steven is a native of Connecticut, having lived his entire life in Sandy Hook up until recently.

He received an A.A. in Mathematics/Science and an A.S. in Aviation Science Management from Naugatuck Valley Community College before transferring to Western Connecticut State University (Westconn). At Westconn he earned a B.S. in Theoretical Meteorology with a minor in Mathematics and, later, a M.A. in Earth & Planetary Science. Currently, Steven’s pursuing a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography at the University of Connecticut.

Steven’s research interests include a variety of topics such as land-sea breezes, waterspouts, dendroclimatology, turnover in lakes and estuaries, and rain’s heat, gas, and momentum fluxes at the air-sea interface.

In the past, Steven has worked on a variety of research projects related to Long Island Sound and the Hypoxic condition which develops in its bottom waters during the summer months. The first of these projects was performed under a USDA grant and characterized the surface energy budget relationship to hypoxia severity in Western Long Island Sound during mid-summer of 2004 and 2005. His recent Master’s Thesis entitled, “Estimating Cloud Fraction over Long Island Sound using Satellite-derived Estimates of Surface Solar Irradiance” was also closely related to this topic.

Latest Articles

  • How does the Sea-Breeze affect Convection?
    For those of you who read my previous article “What’s the temperature of rain?”, I have a correction. The right hand side of equation 2 should be divided by the sum of the rain’s...
  • What's the temperature of rain?
    I’m sure that this won’t be the last time you hear me say this, but if you ask me, rain is one of the most intriguing and exciting topics in meteorology. The multidisciplinary aspect it carries,...
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