Courses taught:

Weather and Climate
Oceanography

Research Interests:

Dr. Anthony J. Vega’s research interests center on synoptic and applied climatology, with a particular emphasis on the relationships between large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns and regional climate variability. His work examines how teleconnection patterns (such as El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Pacific/North American, and Northern Hemisphere flow anomalies) influence precipitation, temperature extremes, growing seasons, and hydrological processes across the United States, including impacts on the Southern U.S., Northeastern U.S., Great Lakes Basin, Chesapeake Bay salinity fluxes, and the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone.

He has extensively investigated tropical cyclone climatology and intensity variations in the North Atlantic, as well as the effects of atmospheric circulation on nuisance coastal flooding, Portuguese wine quality, and paleoclimatic reconstructions of Late Pleistocene to Holocene environments in Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region. Additional interests include statistical and eigenvector techniques in climatological analysis, hydroclimatology, air-sea interactions, climate change impacts, sustainable development, and the integration of climatological data into environmental geology and geoarchaeology. His scholarship combines observational data, synoptic classification methods, and interdisciplinary applications to advance understanding of both modern climate dynamics and long-term paleoenvironmental change.

Other Affiliations:

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (National Love of Learning Selection Committee member, Chapter Vice President,
Scholarship Director, Public Relations Director, and President)
NASA JOVE (Joint Venture) Research Alliance Coordinator at Clarion University (past)
Science and Entertainment Exchange (Earth and Atmosphere Science Expert/Consultant)
Subject Matter Expert/Consultant for Southern New Hampshire University (online Geoscience program)