Stephen J. Vermette
Professor
(716) 878-4930
Campus Address: Classroom Building A211
vermetsj@buffalostate.edu
Teaching and research interests are in meteorology, climatology, and physical geography. Teaches meteorology and climatology courses, as well as World Natural Environments (GEG 101), Cavern Studies (GEG 120), Conservation and Environmental Management (GEG 307), and Arctic Geography (GEG 359). Teaching interests also include place-based field courses in: Cambodia, China, the Arctic, and the Bahamas. Current research focuses on climate studies in Western New York, beach closures related to precipitation events, cave climatology, and air quality in Southeast Asia. Promotes K-12 geographic education in New York and Southeast Asia. Past Co-ccordinator of the New York Geographic Alliance. Coordinates the Meteorology/Climatology Minor at Buffalo State. Full member of the American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, and the National Speleological Society. Received the National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award (2006).
WeatherPage: http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/Weatherpage.htm This page shows current weather conditions at Buffalo State College and the GLC Field Station (foot of Porter Avenue, confluence of Lake Erie and the Niagara River). This page also provides local weather links, information about the Meteorology & Climatology Program at Buffalo State College, and research posters, podcasts and other products.
Selected Publications/Presentations:
Sampson, M.L., Irvine, K.N., Vermette, S.J., Tang, T., and Shantz, A., 2008, Development of a GIS-Linked Water Quality Index Approach as a Decision Support Tool for Source Water Assessment in Rural Cambodia. Presented at: 2nd International Conference on Health GIS 2008, on January 14-16, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.
Vermette, S.J., Graber Neufeld, D., and Bernosky, J. (in preparation). Mapping of Airborne Particulates: Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution.
McInerney, T. and Vermette, S.J., 2008. Development of a Severe Winter Index: Buffalo, NY. Geographical Bulletin , 49(1): 47-55. (offprints are available).
Vermette, S.J. and Orengo, E., 2006. A Re-examination of Buffalo's Lost Lake Effect. Geographical Bulletin., 48 (2), 97-108. (off prints are available).
Vermette, S.J., Torok, D., Wehn, K, and Vermette, V. ,2007. San Salvador, Bahamas Teaching Guide. The College of the Bahamas, Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas.
Kumma, M., Sokvongsa, T., Sarkkula, J., Koponen, J. Kagna, O., Moniphea, L., Mengieng, U., Sampson, M. Irvine, K.N., Vermette, S.J., Tang, T., and Keskinen, M. 2007. A Modelling Framework and Preliminary Results in Assessing Phnom Penh's Sewage Discharges. Effective Modeling of Urban Water Systems, Monograph 15, W. James, K.N. Irvine, E.A. McBean, and R.E. Pitt, eds., Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Vermette, S.J., 2006. Storms of Tropical Origin: A Climatology for New York State, USA (1851-2005), Natural Hazards, 42 (1), 91-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-006-9062-5 (off-prints are available). http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/12/03/more-on-new-york-hurricanes/#more-288 (a review)
Irvine, K.N., Murphy, T., Sampson, M., Dany, V., Vermette, S.J., and Tang, T. 2006. An Overview of Water Quality Issues in Cambodia. Intelligent Modeling of Urban Water Systems, Monograph 14, W. James, K.N. Irvine, E.A. McBean, and R.E. Pitt, eds., Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
LaRussa, M. and Vermette, S.J., 2005. A Re-examination of the Climatological Impact of the Lake Erie-Niagara Ice Boom on Buffalo, NY, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 31: 288-295. http://www.iaglr.org/jglr/release/31/31_3_288-295.php (off-prints are available by contacting S. Vermette).
Vermette, S.J. (2003). Cave Basics and Field Book. Department of Geography and Planning, Buffalo State College.
Vermette, S.J.. Gall, W.K., and Fay, T.J., 2003. Physiography and Insect Fauna of Scoby Dam Cave: Western New York, Middle States Geographer, 36: 164-170. (pdf version)
Vermette, S.J. and Hudson, R., 2001. Hydrology of Watling's Blue Hole: San Salvador, Bahamas, Middle States Geographer, 34: 55-62. (pdf version).
Sweet, C.W., Weiss, A., and Vermette, S.J. 1998. Atmospheric Deposition of Trace Metals at Three Sites Near the Great Lakes., Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 103, 423-439. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/wate/1998/00000103/F0040001/00135347
Vermette, S.J. and Torok, D.M. 1997. Mid-lake Versus Shoreline Dry Deposition: Eastern Lake Erie. The Great Lakes Geographer, 4 (2), 57-63. http://geography.uwo.ca/research/great_lakes_geographer/volume4_abstract.htm#Vermette
Ross, H.B., and Vermette, S.J., 1995. Precipitation. In: D. Salbu and E. Steinnes (eds.), Trace Elements in Natural Waters, , CRC Press http://www.amazon.com/Trace-Elements-Natural-Waters-Salbu/dp/0849363047
