Staff Profile
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Biography

Research Interests

I study the effects of sunlight, especially ultraviolet radiation, on ecosystems and the environment.  I mainly work in freshwater and marine systems focusing on the responses of the smallest organisms in those systems, the plankton.  A long term project has been studying the effects of increased UV-B due to Antarctic ozone depletion on the productivity of the Southern Ocean which surrounds the Antarctic continent.  I also supervise the SI solar-radiation monitoring program which has been measuring UV-B radiation in Maryland since the 1970s compiling one of the longest records of spectral irradiance in the world. 

Publications

  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Helbling, E. Walter ; Day, Thomas A. (2007). Symposium In Print: UV Effects in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments: Introduction. Photochemistry and photobiology, 83 (4) , 775-776. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00176.x
  • Tzortziou, M. ; Subramaniam, A. ; Herman, J. ; Gallegos, Charles L. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Harding, L. W. (2007). Remote Sensing Reflectance and Inherent Optical Properties in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 72 , 16-32.
  • Tzortziou, Maria ; Osburn, C. L. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2007). Photobleaching of dissolved organic material from a tidal marsh-estuarine system of the Chesapeake Bay. Photochemistry and photobiology, 83 (4) , 782-792. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00142.x
  • Fischer, J. M. ; Fields, P. A. ; Pryzbylkowski, P. G. ; Nicolai, J. L. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2006). Sublethal exposure to UV radiation affects respiration rates of the freshwater cladoceran Daphnia catawba. Photochemistry and photobiology, 82 , 547-550.
  • Tziortziou, Maria ; Herman, Jay R. ; Gallegos, Charles L. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Harding, Lawrence W. ; Ahmad, Ziauddin. (2006). Bio-optics of the Chesapeake Bay from measurements and radiative transfer closure. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 68 , 348-362.
  • Litchman, E. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2005). UV effects on photosynthesis, growth and acclimation of an estuarine diatom and cryptomonad. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 300 , 53-62.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Goodrich, V. R. ; Brinley, W. R. (2005). Smithsonian-NIST-USDA-FPL Network for Monitoring Solar Ultraviolet Irradiance:: comparison of radiometer measurements and radiative transfer model calculations. Service Life Prediction: Challenging the Status Quo. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Service Life Prediction (159-170) Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology .
  • O'Sullivan, D. W. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Coffin, R. B. ; Boyd, T. J. ; Osburn, C. L. (2005). Photochemical production of hydrogen peroxide and methylhydroperoxide in coastal waters. Marine Chemistry, 97 , 14-33.
  • Neale, Patrick J. (2004). Photosynthesis in Algae. Journal of Phycology, 40 , 1178-1180.
  • Rijkenberg, M. J. A. ; Gerringa, L. J. A. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Timmermans, K. R. ; Buma, A. G. J. ; Baar, H. J. W. (2004). UVA variability overrules UVB ozone hole depletion on the photoreduction of iron in the Souther Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 31 , L24310, doi.
  • Neale, Patrick J. (2003). Phytoplankton productivity by Williams, Thomas and Reynolds. Newsletter, International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, 38 , 8.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Helbling ; Zagarese, H. E. (2003). Modulation of UV exposure and effects by vertical mixing and advection. UV effects in aquatic organisms and ecosystems (107-134) Royal Society of Chemistry .
  • Day, Thomas A. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2002). Effects of UV-B radiation on terrestrial and aquatic primary producers. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 33 , 371-396.
  • Gallegos, Charles L. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2002). Partitioning spectral absorption in case 2 waters: discrimination of dissolved and particulate components. Applied Optics. Information Processing, 41 , 4220-4233.
  • Gallegos, Charles L. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2002). A two-year time series of continuously monitored inherent optical properties in a eutrophic sub-estuary of Chesapeake Bay. Ocean Optics XVI (8) Office of Naval Research .

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