Steven B. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor of Meteorology

Joined the Faculty in 1978

Office: Copernicus Hall, Room 522
Telephone: 860-832-2940
Fax: 860-832-2946
E-Mail: Newman@ccsu.edu

Education

B.S.,  1973, Meteorology: City College of the City University of New York
M.S., 1975, Atmospheric Sciences: State University of New York at Albany 
Ph.D., 1978, Atmospheric Sciences: State University of New York at Albany

Teaching, Research and Professional Activity

My teaching and research interests lie in a number of different areas. I am heavily involved in K-12 Pre-College Meteorological Education efforts and have served as a staff member for the American Meteorological Society's AMS Project Atmosphere and the DataStreme Project. These two NSF funded projects are designed to increase meteorological awareness among pre-college teachers. I have conducted research in hail dynamics, local climatology, severe local storms and New England hurricane climatology.  Most recently, I've been working on a climatological study of hurricanes and tropical storms that have affected southern New England since 1903.  I've also recently begun looking at 30-year temperature trends at locations across the continental United States in an effort to study global warming. 

I have most recently served the AMS as a member of the AMS Educational Advisory Committee, and as Chairperson of the Board on Continuing Professional Development.  Our work involves developing and overseeing the continuing professional development requirements of our Society members.  Recently, the AMS has strengthened professional development requirements for those members seeking or holding the Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) certificate, as well as those members wishing to obtain the new Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) seal or to retain their AMS Broadcasting Seal of Approval.  In past years, I have also been a member of the AMS Boards of Higher Education, Women and Minorities, and Outreach & Public Education.

I'm also in charge of the Weather Center here at CCSU.  Located on the Fifth Floor of Copernicus Hall, our Meteorology lab is fully computerized with access to all National Weather Service data.  We maintain a website (www.ccsu.edu/weather) that features local forecasts, and links to weather data from all over the world.  I am also the author of a weather blog, Dr. Steve's Weather Blog, which can be accessed at www.drstevesweatherblog.blogspot.com.

Selected Publications and Other Scholarly Activity

Newman, S.B., Dimmick, C.W., and K. M. Larsen, 2002: Incorporating elements of Project DataStreme into a university-level in-service course on natural disasters. 
                        Proceedings, 11^th Symposium on Education, Orlando, FL, American Meteorological Society, 42-44.
Newman, S.B. 2003: Encouraging student involvement through use of basic probability forecasting games.  Proceedings, 12^th Symposium on Education, Long Beach, CA,
                        American Meteorological Society, CD-ROM.
Newman, S.B., 2004: Weather and the United States Manned Space Flight Program—A Brief Chronology.  Proceedings, 13^th Symposium on Education, Seattle, WA,
                        American Meteorological Society, CD-ROM.
Newman, S.B., 2007: Preliminary results of a new laboratory exercise to study microscale temperature changes on a University campus.  Proceedings, 16^th Symposium on Education,
                        San Antonio, TX, American Meteorological Society, CD-ROM.
Newman, S.B., 2008: A new laboratory exercise to study microscale spatial temperature changes on a University campus., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 1835-1840.
Newman, S.B., 2009: Trends in urban seasonal and mean temperature from 1973-2002 in the continental United States:  Is there a human factor?, Proceedings of the 4th Symposium
                        on Policy and Socio-Economic Research, Phoenix, AZ, American Meteorological Society, Available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/89annual/techprogram/paper_144789.htm.