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. ; 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.
  • Sigleo, Anne C. ; 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. ; 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.
  • Cullen, John J. ; Neale, Patrick J. (1994). Ultraviolet radiation, ozone depletion, and marine photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research, 39 , 303-320.
  • Karentz, D. ; Bothwell, M. L. ; Coffin, R. B. ; Hanson, A. ; Herndl, G. J. ; Kilham, S. S. ; Lesser, Michael P. ; Lindell, M. ; Moeller, R. E. ; Morris, D. P. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Sanders, R. W. ; Weiler, C. S. ; Wetzel, R. G. (1994). Impact of UVB radiation on pelagic freshwater ecosystems: Report on working group on bacteria and phytoplankton. Archiv für Hydrobiologie: Beiheft Ergebnisse der Limnologie, 43 , 31-69.
  • Lesser, Michael P. ; Cullen, John J. ; Neale, Patrick J. (1994). Carbon uptake in a marine diatom during acute exposure to ultraviolet B radiation: Relative importance of damage and repair . Journal of Phycology, 30 , 183-192.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Lesser, Michael P. ; Cullen, John J. (1994). Effects of ultraviolet radiation on the photosynthesis of phytoplankton in the vicinity of McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Ultraviolet radiation and biological research in Antarctica (125-142) American Geophysical Union .
  • Cullen, John J. ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Lesser, Michael P. (1992). Biological weighting function for the inhibition of phytoplankton photosynthesis by ultraviolet radiation. Science, 258 , 646-650.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Heaney, S. Ivan ; Jaworski, George H. M. (1991). Response to high irradiance contribute to the decline of the spring diatom maximum . Limnology and Oceanography, 36 (4) , 761-768.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Melis, Anastasios. (1991). Dynamics of Photosystem II heterogeneity during photoinhibition: Depletion of PS IIb from non-appressed thylakoids during strong-irradiance exposure of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1056 , 195-203.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Talling, Jack F. ; Heaney, S. Ivan ; Reynolds, Colin S. ; Lund John, W. G. (1991). Long time series from the English Lake District: Irradiance-dependent phytoplankton dynamics during the spring maximum . Limnology and Oceanography, 36 (4) , 751-760.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Melis, Anastasios. (1990). Activation of a reserve pool of photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii counteracts photoinhibition . Plant Physiology, 92 , 1196-1204.
  • Neale, Patrick J. ; Cullen, John J. ; Yentsch, Clarice M. (1989). Bio-optical inferences from chlorophyll a fluorescence: What kind of fluorescence is measured in flow cytometry? . Limnology and Oceanography, 34 (8) , 1739-1748.
  • Demeter, Sandor ; Neale, Patrick J. ; Melis, Anastasios. (1987). Photoinhibition: Impairment of the primary charge separation between P-680 and pheophytin in photosystem II of chloroplasts. Federation of European Biochemical Societies Letters, 214 (2) , 370-374.

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