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

  • Sigleo, A. C., Neale, Patrick J. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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 and 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. and 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. and 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 and 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. and 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. and Spector, Anna M. (1995). Ultraviolet absorbance by diatom populations from the Weddell-Scotia confluence. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 29 , 266-267.
  • Sigleo, Anne C. and Neale, Patrick J. (1995). Phytoplankton pigment profiles at the Weddell-Scotia Confluence during the 1993 austral spring . Antarctic Journal of the United States, 29 , 147-148.
  • Sikorski, Richard J., Sigleo, Anne C. and Neale, Patrick J. (1995). Spectral measurements of ultraviolet and visible solar irradiance at the Weddell-Scotia Confluence during 1993 austral spring. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 29 , 270-272.

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