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. (2000). Spectral weighting functions for quantifying the effects of ultraviolet radiation in marine ecosystems. Effects of UV radiation on marine ecosystems (73-100) Cambridge University Press .
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Kieber, D. J. (2000). Assessing biological and chemical effects of UV in the marine environment: spectral weighting functions. Causes and environmental implications of increased UV-B radiation (61-83) Royal Society of Chemistry .
  • Sigleo, A. C. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Spector, A. M. (2000). Phytoplankton pigments at the Weddell-Scotia confluence during the 1993 austral spring . Journal of Plankton Research, 22 (10) , 1989-2006.
  • Vincent, W. F. ; Neale, Patrick J. (2000). Mechanisms of UV damage to aquatic organisms. Effects of UV radiation on marine ecosystems (149-176) Cambridge University Press .
  • Neale, Patrick J. (1999). Application of spectral weighting functions in assessing the effects of environmental UV radiation. Service life predition of organic coatings: a systems approach (45-55) American Chemical Society .
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Banaszak, Anastazia T. ; Jarriel, Catherine R. (1998). Ultraviolet sunscreens in Gymnodinium sanguineum (dinophyceae): mycosporine-like amino acids protect against inhibition of photosynthesis . Journal of Phycology, 34 (6) , 928-938.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Cullen, John H. ; Davis, Richard F. (1998). Inhibition of marine photosynthesis by ultraviolet radiation: Variable sensitivity of phytoplankton in the Weddell-Scotia Confluence during the austral spring . Limnology and Oceanography, 43 (3) , 433-448.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Davis, Richard F. ; Cullen, John J. (1998). Interactive effects of ozone depletion and vertical mixing on photosynthesis of Antarctic phytoplankton . Nature, 392 (6676) , 585-589.
  • Booth, C. R. ; Morrow, J. H. ; Coohill, T. P. ; Cullen, J. J. ; Frederick, J. E. ; Haeder, D. P. ; Holm-Hansen, O. ; Jeffrey, W. H. ; Mitchell, D. L. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Sobolev, I. ; Van-Der-Leun, J. ; Worrest, R. C. (1997). Impacts of solar UVR on aquatic microorganisms. Photochemistry and photobiology, 65 , 252-269.
  • Thompson, Ambler ; Early, Edward A. ; DeLuisi, John ; Disterhoft, Patrick ; Wardle, David ; Kerr, James ; Rives, John ; Sun, Yongchen ; Lucas, Timothy ; Mestechkina, Tanya ; Neale, Patrick J. (1997). 1994 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet monitoring spectroradiometers . Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 102 (3) , 279-322.
  • Hofmann, D. J. ; Oltmans, S. J. ; Koenig, G. L. ; Bodhaine, B. A. ; Harris, J. M. ; Lathrop, J. A. ; Schnell, R. C. ; Barnes, J. ; Chin, J. ; Kuniyuki, D. ; Ryan, S. ; Uchida, R. ; Yoshinaga, A. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Hayes, Jr D. R. ; Goodrich, V. R. ; Komhyr, W. D. ; Evans, R. D. ; Johnson, B. J. ; Quincy, D. M. ; Clark, M. (1996). Record low ozone at Mauna Loa Observatory during winter 1994-1995: A consequence of chemical and dynamical synergism?. Geophysical Research Letters, 23 (12) , 1533-1536.
  • Lesser, Michael P. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Cullen, John J. (1996). Acclimation of Antarctic phytoplankton to ultraviolet radiation: ultraviolet-absorbing compounds and carbon fixation. Molecular marine biology and biotechnology, 5 (4) , 314-325.
  • Ferreyra, Gustavo A. ; Schloss, Irene R. ; Demers, Serge ; Neale, Patrick J. (1995). Phytoplankton responses to natural UV irradiance during early spring in the Weddell-Scotia confluence: An experimental approach. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 29 , 268-270.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Priscu, John C. (1995). Photosynthetic apparatus to phytoplankton from a perennially ice-covered Antarctic lake: Acclimation to an extreme shade environment. Plant Cell Physiology, 36 (2) , 253-263.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Spector, Anna M. (1995). Ultraviolet absorbance by diatom populations from the Weddell-Scotia confluence. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 29 , 266-267.

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