Ben McNeil

Senior Fellow

Climate Change Research Centre

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Ph: 02 9385 7068

Fax: 02 9385 7123

 

 

Science Publications

  • McNeil, B.I., and R.J. Matear 2008: Southern Ocean acidification: A tipping point at 450-ppm atmospheric CO2, Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of Amercia, December 2, vol. 105 no. 48 18860-18864. Full article and supplementary information.
  • McNeil, B.I., N. Metzl, R.M. Key, R.J. Matear and A. Corbiere, 2007: An Empirical Estimate of the Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 flux. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 21, GB3011, doi:10.1029/2007GB002991. Full Article
  • McNeil, B.I., and R.J. Matear 2007: Climate Change Feedbacks on Oceanic pH. Tellus-B: Special issue for the 7th International Carbon Dioxide Conference, 59B, 191-198. Full Article.
  • R.J. Matear and McNeil, B.I., 2006: Comment on "Pre-industrial to Modern Inter-decadal Variability in Coral Reef pH". Science,Vol 314, October 27, 595. Full article, with a response here, and original article here
  • McNeil, B.I., and R.J. Matear 2006: Projected climate change impact on oceanic acidification, Carbon Balance and Management, Vol 1, No.1. Full article.
  • Waugh, D.W., Hall, T.M., McNeil, B.I., Key, R.M and R.J. Matear 2006: Athropogenic CO2 in the Oceans estimated using transit-time distributions. Tellus-B: Special issue for the 7th International Carbon Dioxide Conference,Vol 58B, 376-389.
  • McNeil, B.I., R.J. Matear, D.J. Barnes 2005: Reply to Comment by Kleypas et al., on "Coral reef calcification and climate change : the effect of ocean warming". Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 32, L08602, Apr 30, 2005. Full article.
  • McNeil, B.I., R.J. Matear, D.J. Barnes 2004: Coral reef calcification and climate change : the effect of ocean warming. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 31, L22309, Nov 29, 2004. Full article.
  • Matear R.J. and McNeil, B.I., 2003: Decadal accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 in the Southern Ocean: a comparison of CFC-age derived estimates to multiple linear regression estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol 17, No 4, 1113-. Full article.
  • McNeil, B.I., R.J. Matear, R.M. Key, J.L. Bullister and J.L. Sarmiento, 2003: Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon dataset. Science, Vol 299, Jan 10, 235-239 . Full article.
  • McNeil, B.I., R.J. Matear and B. Tilbrook 2001: Accumulation and uptake of anthropogenic CO2 in the Southern Ocean, south of Australia between 1968 to 1996. Journal of Geophysical research, Vol 106, No C12, 31431-31445. Full article.
  • McNeil, B.I., R.J. Matear and B. Tilbrook 2001: Does carbon-13 track anthropogenic CO2 in the Southern Ocean? Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol 15, No 3, 597-. Full article.
  • Matear, R.J., Hirst, T and B.I. McNeil 2000: Changes in dissolved oxygen in the Southern Ocean with cliimate change. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol 1, Nov 21, GC00086 Full article.

Policy and Environmental Economics Publications

  • McNeil, B.I., 2007: The Costs of Introducing Nuclear Power to Australia. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 59. Full Article.
  • McNeil, B.I., 2006: Significance of the Oceanic CO2 Sink for National Carbon Accounts. Carbon Balance and Management, Vol 2, No.1. Full Article.
  • McNeil, B.I., 2006: Oceanic implications for Climate Change Policy. Environmental Science and Policy, Vol 9, Issue 7-8, pg 595-606. Full Article.

Textbook Chapters

  • McNeil, B.I. 2008: Global Ecology and Importance of the Oceans and Coasts, in Ecological Economics of the Oceans and Coasts,edited by Murray Patterson, Edward Elgar, NZ.