RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION WITHIN THE PAST 5 YEARS

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS WITHIN THE PAST 7 YEARS

Peer Reviewed Articles

Saha, A., N. T. O'Neill, E Eloranta, R. S. Stone, T. F. Eck, S. Zidane, D. Daou, A. Lupu, G. Lesins, M. Shiobara, L. J. B. McArthur, Pan-Arctic sunphotometry during the ARCTAS-A campaign of April 2008, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 37, L05803, doi:10.1029/2009GL041375,2010.
Atkinson D. B., P. Massoli , N. T. O’Neill , P. K. Quinn D. S. Covert, S. Brooks, and B. Lefer, (2009), Comparison of in situ and columnar spectral measurements during TexAQS-GoMACCS 2006: Testing parameterizations for estimating aerosol fine mode optical properties, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 17465-17494.
Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, E. J. Hyer, J. S. Reid, G.E. Shaw, A. Sinyuk, J. R. Vande Castle, F.S. Chapin, N.T. O’Neill, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, E. Vermote, J.S. Schafer, D. Giles, I. Slutsker, M. Sorokine, W. Newcomb^,Optical Properties of Boreal Region Biomass Burning Aerosols In Alaska and Transport of Smoke to Arctic Regions, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 114, D11201, doi:10.1029/2008JD010870, 2009.
O'Neill, N. T., Comment on the paper "Classification of aerosol properties derived from AERONET direct sun data" by G. P. Gobbi et al. (2007), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 175–182, 2008.
O'Neill, N. T., O. Pancrati, K. Baibakov, E Eloranta, R. L. Batchelor, J. Freemantle, L. J. B. McArthur, K. Strong, and R. Lindenmaier, Occurrence of weak, sub-micron, tropospheric aerosol events at high Arctic latitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L14814, doi:10.1029/2008GL033733, 2008
O'Neill, N. T., T.F. Eck, Reid, J. S, Smirnov, A., O. Pancrati, Coarse mode optical information retrievable using ultraviolet to shortwave infrared sunphotometry; application to UAE², J. Geophys. Res.,113, D05212, doi:10.1029/2007JD009052, 2008.
Eck, T.F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, A. Sinyuk, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, D. Giles, O’Neill, N.T., S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, A. Al Mandoos, A. Ramzan, E. A. Reid, J. S. Schafer, M. Sorokine, W. Newcomb, and I. Slutsker, Spatial and Temporal Variability of Column Integrated Aerosol Optical Properties in the Southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in Summer, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D01204, doi:10.1029/2007JD008944, 2008.
McKendry, I. G., K. B. Strawbridge, N. T. O'Neill, A. M. Macdonald, P. S. K. Liu, W. R. Leaitch, K. G. Anlauf, L. Jaegle, T. D. Fairlie, and D. L. Westphal, Trans-Pacific transport of Saharan dust to western North America: A case study, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D01103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007129, 2007.
Bokoye, A. I., A. Royer, P. Cliche, N. O’Neill (2006). Calibration of Sun Radiometer-Based Atmospheric Water Vapor Retrievals Using GPS Meteorology. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 24, Issue 6, 964-979, 2007.
O'Neill, N. T. , A., Campanelli, M. , Lupu., A., S. Thulasiraman , Reid, J. S., J. McConnell, J. Kaminski, M. Aubé, Evaluation of the GEM–AQ air quality model during the Québec smoke event of 2002: analysis of extensive and intensive optical disparities, Atmos. Environ., 40 (20): 3737-3749, 2006.
Gassó, S., and N. O'Neill, Comparisons of remote sensing retrievals and in situ measurements of aerosol fine mode fraction during ACE-Asia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L05807, doi:101029/2005GL024926, 2006.
Reid, J. S., B. Brooks, K. K. Crahan, D. A. Hegg, T. F. Eck, N. T. O’Neill, G. de Leeuw, E. A. Reid, and K. A. Anderson, Evaluation of coarse mode sea-salt aerosol particle size measurements and parameterizations at a sub-tropical ocean receptor site, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 111, D02202, doi:10.1029/2005JD006200, 2006.
O'Neill, N. T., McArthur, L. J. B., K. and B. Strawbridge, Recent progress in the remote sensing of aerosols, Physics in Canada, Special issue on Planetary Remote Sensing in Canada, Vol. 61, No. 5, 235-241, 2005.
Kleidman, R. G. , N. T. O'Neill, L. A. Remer, Y. J. Kaufman, T. F. Eck, Didier Tanre, Oleg Dubovik, and B. N. Holben, Comparison of MODIS and AERONET remote sensing retrievals of aerosol fine mode fraction over ocean, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, No. D22, D22205, 10.1029/2005JD005760, 2005.
O'Neill, N. T., S. Thulasiraman, T. F. Eck, J. S. Reid, Robust optical features of fine mode size distributions; application to the Québec smoke event of 2002, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, No. D11, D11207, doi:10.1029/2004JD005414, 2005.
O'Neill, N. T., S. Thulasiraman, T. F. Eck, J. S. Reid, Correction to the effective radius expression in O'Neill et al. (2005), J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24203, doi:10.1029/2008JD011334, 2008.
O'Neill, N. T., Smirnov, A., Eck, T. F., McElroy, C. T., McArthur, L. J. B., and B. N. Holben, Comment on the paper "Determination of NO₂ Column amounts from AERONET data" by Rublev et al. in Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 54-67, Izvest, Atmosph. Ocean. Phys., 2004.
O'Neill, N. T., Strawbridge, K. B., Thulasiraman, S., Zhang, J. , Royer, A. , Freemantle, J., Optical coherency of Sunphotometry, sky radiometry and lidar measurements during the early phase of Pacific2001, Atmospheric Environment, 38 (2004) 5887–5894, 2004.
Bokoye, A.I., A. Royer, N. T. O’Neill, P. Cliche, L. J. B. McArthur, P. M. Teillet, G. Fedosejevs, and J.-M. Thériault, Multisensor analysis of integrated atmospheric water vapor over Canada and Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 108, No. D15, 4480, doi:10.1029/2002JD002721, 2003
Eck T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, N. T. O’Neill, J. S. Schafer, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, M. A. Yamasoe, P. Artaxo, High aerosol optical depth biomass burning events: A comparison of optical properties for different source regions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (20), 2035, doi:10.1029/2003GL017861, 2003.
O'Neill, N. T.,T. F., Eck, A. Smirnov, B. N.Holben, S. Thulasiraman, Spectral discrimination of coarse and fine mode optical depth, J. Geophys. Res., Vol.. 108, No. D17, 4559-4573, 10.1029/2002JD002975, 2003.
McArthur, L.J. B., D.H. Halliwell, O. J. Neibergall, N. T. O’Neill, J. R. Slusser, and C. Wehrli, Field Comparison of Network Sunphotometers, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 108, No. D19, 4596, 10.1029/2002JD002964, 2003.
S. Thulasiraman, O'Neill, N. T., Royer, A., Holben, B. N., Westphal, D., L. J. B. McArthur, Sunphotometric observations of the 2001 Asian dust storm over Canada and the U.S., Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 29, No. 8, 10.1029/2001GL014188, 2002.
O'Neill, N. T., Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Smirnov, A.A. Royer, Z. Li, Optical properties of Boreal Forest Fire Smoke Derived from Sunphotometry, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 107, No. D11, 10.1029/2001JD000877, 2002.
Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, O. Dubovik, N. T. O’Neill, T. F. Eck, D. L. Westphal, A. K. Goroch, C. Pietras, and I. Slutsker, Atmospheric aerosol optical properties in the Persian Gulf Region, J. Atm. Sci., 59, 620-634, 2002.

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Y. Shinozuka1, J. Redemann, J. M. Livingston, P. B. Russell, A. D. Clarke, S. G. Howell, S. Freitag, N. T. O'Neill, E. A. Reid, R. Johnson, S. Ramachandran, C. S. McNaughton, V. N. Kapustin, V. Brekhovskikh, B. N. Holben, L. J. B. McArthur, Airborne observation of aerosol optical depth during ARCTAS: Vertical profiles, inter-comparison, fine-mode fraction and horizontal variability, submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys., June, 2010.
K. B., Strawbridge, N. T. O'Neill, M. Latha, Freemantle, J., Thulasiraman, S., Multi-event analysis of Lidar and sunphotometer observations acquired at a site in southern Canada , in preparation for J. Geophys. Res., 2009.

Unrefereed technical notes / proceedings articles

Baibakov, K., N. T. O'Neill, A. Saha, D. Daou, B. Firanski, K. Strawbridge, and E. Eloranta, Synergism of nighttime starphotometry and lidar measurements, extended abstract, 25th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC), St. Petersburg, Russia, July 5-9, 2010.
Baibakov, K., N. T. O'Neill, B. Firanski, K. Strawbridge, Preliminary Analysis of Night-time Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals at a Rural, Near-urban Site in Southern Canada, Extended Abstract, IRS2008, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Aug. 3 - 8, 2008.
Yayla, M., N. T. O'Neill, Local remote sensing Algorithm Development for chlorophyll estimation in the Estuary and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Extended Abstract, Ocean Optics VIII, Montréal, Québec, Oct. 9-13, 2006.
S. Zidane, N. T. O’Neill, P. Larouche, S. Çizmeli, M. Yayla, Use of multi-altitude imaging spectrometry for validating the SEaWIFs atmospheric correction algorithm over the St. Lawrence estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Extended Abstract, Ocean Optics VIII, Montréal, Québec, Oct. 9-13, 2006.
Cizmeli, S., O'Neill, N. T., Inherent and apparent optical properties of the St-Lawrence Gulf and Estuary, Extended Abstract, Ocean Optics VIII, Montréal, Québec, Oct. 9-13, 2006.
N. Pfister, N. T. O'Neill, M.Aubé, M.-N. Nguyen, X. Béchamp-Laganière, A. Besnier, L. Corriveau, G. Gasse, É. Levert, D. Plante, “Spatial and temporal interpolation of satellite-based aerosol optical depth measurements over North America using B-splines”, Proceedings of SPIE, 5890, 2005.
J. Freemantle, N. O’Neill, A. Royer, B. McArthur, Ihab Abboud, AEROCAN: The Canadian Sunphotometer Network, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols, April 2005.
M. Aubé, N. T. O'Neill, A. Royer, D. Lavouéc, A modeling approach for aerosol optical depth analysis during forest fire events, Proceedings of SPIE's 49th Annual Meeting. 1 - 6 August, 2004.
N. O'Neill, A. Royer, J-P Blanchet, M. Aubé, S. Thulasiraman, F. Vachon, P.Teillet, J. Freemantle, J-P Blanchet, S. Gong, Atmospheric optical parameter server for atmospheric corrections of remote sensing data, Proceedings of IGARSS'02, Toronto, Ont., June 24-28, 2002
Freemantle, J., M. Versi, N. T. O'Neill, A. Royer, M. Aubé, S. Thulasiraman, F. Vachon, P. M. Teillet, J-P Blanchet, and “S. Gong, Using Web Services for Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Data”, Proceedings of IGARSS'02, Toronto, Ont., June 24-28, 2002

Bokoye, A.I., A. Royer, N.T. O'Neill, P. Cliche, G. Fedosejevs, P.M. Teillet and B. McArthur, Characterization of atmospheric aerosols

across Canada from a ground-based sunphotometer network : AEROCAN., Atmosphere-Ocean, 2001.

Bokoye, I., A. Royer, N.T. O'Neill and B.McArthur, A North American Arctic aerosol climatology using ground based sunphotometry, Arctic, 2005.

Conference/Workshop presentations
Saha, A., N.T. O'Neill, R.S. Stone, Spectral Analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Measurements acquired during the PAN-ARCMIP Airborne Campaign, IPY Science Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 8-12, 2010.

O'Neill, N. T., L. B. J. McArthur, J. McConnell, K. Strawbridge, Aerosol Remote Sensing (and the use of models to extrapolate to 4D continuity), Space Science Symposium - a tribute to Gordon Shepherd, York University, Toronto, ON, May 27-28, 2010.

Saha A., N.T. O’Neill, E. Eloranta, R.S. Stone, T.F. Eck, S. Zidane, D. Daou, A. Lupu, G. Lesins, M. Shiobara, L.J.B. McArthur, Pan-Arctic sunphotometry during the ARCTAS-A campaign, National Space Science Symposium (NSSS), Rajkot, India, Feb. 24-27, 2010.

O'Neill, N. T., T. F. Eck, R. S. Reid, Intensive parameter information from AOD spectra; fine and coarse mode particle size, Second International Conference of Aerosol Science and Global Change, (August, 18-21, 2009, Hangzhou, China).

Yayla, M., N. T. O'Neill, P. Larouche, S. Çizmeli, Empirical Approach for the Development of Local Chlorophyll Algorithms in the Optically Complex Waters of the Estuary and Gulf of Saint Lawrence, MOCA-09, the IAMAS-IAPSO-IACS 2009 Joint Assembly, Montréal, Canada, July 19 - 29, 2009.

Saha, A., O'Neill, N. T., S. Zidane, A. Lupu, R. Stone, I. Abboud, L. J. B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, E. Eloranta, B. Pierce, K. Baibakov, R. Stone, B. Holben, T. Eck, G. Lesins, B. Holben, Aerosol Optical Measurements acquired at Arctic and sub-Arctic sites during the springtime ARCTAS campaign, CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, May 31-June 4, 2009 (ppt presentation).

Freemantle, J., O'Neill, N. T., A. Royer, L. J. B. McArthur, I. Abboud, Software tools to monitor a real time sunphotometer network, CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, May 31-June 4, 2009 (pdf poster).

O'Neill, N. T., Saha, A., S. Zidane, M. Latha, A. Lupu, K. Baibakov, I. Abboud, L. J. B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, G. Lesins, Remote sensing of aerosols from the Mideast to the High-Arctic : An Overview of Techniques and Recent Results, Invited Paper, CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, May 31-June 4, 2009 (ppt presentation).

Saha, A., N. T. O'Neill, M. Latha, L. J. B. McArthur, K. Strawbridge, Pan North-American Optical Effects of Kasatochi Volcanic Plume, AGU Joint meeting, Toronto, May 24-27, 2009.

Latha, K. M., N. T. O'Neill, K. Strawbridge, B. Firanski, A. Saha, D. Daou, Multi-event analysis of Lidar and Sunphotometer observations acquired at a site in Southern Canada (steps towards a regional climatology), AGU Joint meeting, Toronto, May 24-27, 2009.

Lupu, A., O'Neill, N. T., Kaminski, J. W., Neary, L., McConnell, J. C., GEM-AQ modelling of smoke events observed in the Canadian High Arctic, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009 (pdf poster).

Aubé, M., , N.T. O’Neill , J.-D. Giguère, and A. Royer, Using Artificial Sky Glow to Retrieve Night Time Aerosol Optical Depth, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009.

O'Neill, N. T., Arctic aerosols - Some thoughts about potential sensors, Molniya Orbit workshop, York University, Jan. 29, 2009.

O'Neill, N. T., A. Saha, R. Stone, I. Abboud, L. J. B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, K. Baibakov, A. Lupu, R. Stone, B. Holben, T. Eck, G. Lesins, Pan-Arctic optical measurements during the springtime ARCTAS campaign, ARCTAS workshop, Virginia Beach, VA, Jan. 26-28, 2009

Saha, A., N. T. O'Neill, R. Stone, I. Abboud, L. J. B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, K. Baibakov, Synchronicity of Aerosol Optical Measurements acquired at Arctic and sub-Arctic sites, Arctic Change Conference, Québec, Dec. 9-12, 2008.

Blanchard, Y., A. Royer, N. T. O’Neill, Analysis of the potential for retrieving cloud optical depth and super-micron, ice-particle size using IR radiometry in an Arctic environment, Arctic Change Conference, Québec, Dec. 9-12, 2008.

O'Neill, N. T., A. Saha, R. Stone, I. Abboud, L. J. B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, K. Baibakov, Synchronicity of Aerosol Optical Measurements acquired at Arctic and sub-Arctic sites, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 15-19, 2008.

Baibakov, K., N. T. O'Neill, Starphotometer: Recent Activities and Latest Status at Eureka, CANDAC Worshop, Toronto, Nov. 27-29, 2008.

Blanchard, Y., N. T. O’Neill, A. Royer, IR radiometry at Eureka : Methodology, recent measurements and preliminary results, CANDAC Worshop, Toronto, Nov. 27-29, 2008.

Lupu, A., N. T. O’Neill, L Neary, K Toyota, JC McConnell, K Strong, R Batchelor, JW Kaminski, A Saha, GEM-AQ modelling of smoke events observed in the high Arctic at Eureka (preliminary results), CANDAC Worshop, Toronto, Nov. 27-29, 2008.

Saha, A., N. T. O'Neill, E. Eloranta, R.L. Batchelor, K. Strong, R.B. Pierce, R. Stone, I. Abboud, L.J.B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, Highlights of 2008 Arctic Aerosol Events, CANDAC Worshop, Toronto, Nov. 27-29, 2008.

Baibakov, K., N. T. O'Neill, B. Firanski, K. Strawbridge, Preliminary analysis of night-time aerosol optical depth retrievals at a rural, near-urban site in southern Canada, International Radiation Symposium, IRS2008, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Aug. 3 - 8, 2008.

Zidane, Shems-eddine, Norm O'Neill, Martin Bergeron, Atmospheric Correction Error Model Validation using Hyperspectral Multialtitude Data, IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, July 6-11, 2008 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A, 2008.

Zidane, S-e., O'Neill, N. T., M. Bergeron, Atmospheric Correction Error Model Validation using Hyperspectral Multialtitude Data, 2008 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, July 6-11, 2008.

O'Neill, N. T., J. C. McConnell, M. Mullins,H. Chesser, . Solheim, J. Kaminski, K. Strong, D. Jones, . Drummond, R. M., C. Tom McElroy, W. F. J. Evans, J. G. Giroux, M.-A. A. Soucy, H. L. Buijs, L. M. Moreau, G. Buttner, P. Rahnama, N. Rowlands, J. Hackett, A. Bell, Polar air Quality and climate from a Molniya Orbit, AGU Joint meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 27-30, 2008

Shokr, M., N. T. O’Neill, Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosol, Presented at Workshop on Aerosol-Climate Interactions: Mechanisms, Monitoring, and Impact in Tropical Regions, 11-15 February, Hurghada, Egypt, Feb., 2008.

O'Neill, N. T., O. Pancrati, K. Baibakov, J. Freemantle1 I. Abboud, and B. McArthur, Some preliminar aerosol results from the PEARL / 0PAL photometry suite, CANDAC Workshop, Toronto, ON, Oct. 24-25, 2008.

O'Nell, N. T., A. Lupu, L. Neary, S. Thulasiraman, J. C. McConnell, J. Kamenski, Evaluation of the GEM-AQ air quality model on a global scale; extensive and intensive parameter comparisons with AERONET and MODIS, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, Dec. 10-14, 2007.

O'Neill, N. T., O. Pancrati, K. Baibakov, A. Lupu, K. S. Thulasiraman, K. Strawbridge, M. Aubé, J. Freemantle, L. Neary, J. Kaminski, J. McConnell, Evaluation of regional air quality models in the presence of moderate to strong aerosol events, CMOS/AMS Meeting, St. John's Newfoundland, May 28-June 1, 2007

O'Neill, N. T., AEROCAN activities as part of the Polar AOD network, Polar AOD and AERONET sub-network Sunphotometry Workshop, St. John's Newfoundland, May 27-28, 2007 (convener Norm O'Neill).

K. B. Strawbridge, S. Thulasiraman, N.T. O’Neill and I.G. McKendry, Lidar and Sunphotometry observations on the long-range transport of smoke and dust events, SPIE Europe, Remote Sensing conference, Stockolm, Sweden, Sept. 11-14, 2006.

O'Neill, N. T., A. Royer, J. Freemantle, S. Thulasiraman, L. B. J. McArthur, K. Strawbridge, J. McConnell, A. Lupu, J. W. Kaminski, Lori Neary, Tom Duck, Glen Lesins, The Aerosol Optical Network; a pan-Canadian, ground-based network for the monitoring of aerosol properties and the evaluation of spatio-temporal aerosol models, ISTC International Aerosol Workshop, Lake Baikal, Russia, August, 15-18, 2006.

O'Neill, N. T., A. Smirnov, T. F. Eck, S. Sakerin, D. Kabanov, Analysis of dust and marine aerosol optical depth spectral-curvature information in the UV to SWIR (Short Wave Infrared) wavelength regions, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, December 5-9, 2005.

Pfister, N., N. T. O'Neill, M. P. Aubé,, M. Nguyen, X. Béchamp-Laganière, A. Besnier, L. Corriveau, G. Gasse, É. Levert, D. Plante, Spatial and temporal interpolation of satellite-based measurements of aerosol optical depth over North America using B-splines, SPIE Optics and Photonics conference, San Diego, California, USA, 31 July – 4 August 2005.

J. R. Freemantle, N. T. O’Neill, M. Aubé, N. Pfister, and M.-N. Nguyen, Automatic Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Imagery Using NOMAD, Canadian Remote Sensing Symposium, June 14-16, Wolfville, NS, 2005.

Yayla, M., N. T. O'Neill, Çizmeli, S., and P. Larouche, Validation of SeaWiFS imagery over the St. Lawrence ecosystem : A preliminary procedure based on selective atmospheric correction/empirical chlorophyll retrieval algorithm couples, 8th International Conference, Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Halifax NS, 17-19 May, 2005.

Çizmeli, S.A., O'Neill, Roy, S., N.T., Yayla, M., Larouche, P.Inherent and apparent optical properties of the St-Lawrence Gulf and Estuary :Optical coherency checks, parameterisation and reflectance modelling, 8th International Conference, Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Halifax NS, 17-19 May, 2005.

A. Lupu, N.T. O’Neill, L. Neary, J.W. Kaminski, J.C. McConnell, Long-range transport of emissions from the July 2002 Québec forest fires, General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, 24 - 29 April, 2005.

Santiago G., O'Neill, N. T., Redemann, J. ,Passive Remote Sensing of Aerosol Fine Mode Fraction: A Comparison with In-Situ Measurements during the ACE-Asia Field Campaign, 2004 Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2004, San Francisco, CA

Aubé, M. , O'Neill, N.T., Royer, A., Lavoué, D., Dumaine-Allard, S., Using ATSR fire counts to create biomass burning aerosol source inventoties: integration into the AODSEM Aerosol Optical Depth analysis PACKAGE, AGU meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada, May, 2004.

O'Neill, N. T., S. Thulasiraman, B. N. Holben, M. Aubé, J. McConnell, R. Menard, A. Royer, J. W. Kaminski, A. Lupu, L. Neary, Comparative Evaluation of Aerosol Dynamics Models Using Aerosol Optical Observations of Boreal Smoke Events, AGU meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada, May, 2004.

Cosme, E., Menard, R., O'Neill, N. T., First Experiments in Assimilation of MODIS Reflectances in an Aerosol Model, AGU meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada, May, 2004.

O’Neill, N. T., T. Eck, J. Reid, A. Smirnov, S. Thulasiraman, B. Holben, J. McConnell, J. Kaminski, J. Freemantle, A. Royer, B. McArthur, J. Zhang, Recent AEROCAN research, AERONET Workshop in Huelva Spain, May, 10-14, 2004.

S. Thulasiraman, N. T. O'Neill, S.L.Gong, Jack McConnell, Lori Neary, Jacek Kaminski, Alexandru Lupu, A.Royer, Evaluation of modeled aerosol properties on a globalclimatological scale (GCMIII model) and on a meteorological, air quality scale (GEM-AQ model), XIII National Space Science Symposium held at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India from 17 Feb to 20 Feb 2004.

O'Neill, N. T., AERONET/AEROCAN activities in the Arctic, Polar AOD Network Workshop, Bologna, Italy, 27-29, October 2003.

Aubé, M., N.T. O’Neill, A. Royer, D. Lavoué, Modelling of aerosol optical depth variability during the 1998 Canadian forest fire events, spring AGU/EUG meeting, Nice, France, April, 2003.

Invited presentations / Session chairs
Session co-chair, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ocean (PART 2 & 3) / Télédétection de l'atmosphère et de l'océan (Partie 2 & 3) CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, May 31-June 4, 2009

O'Neill, N. T., Saha, A., S. Zidane, M. Latha, A. Lupu, K. Baibakov, I. Abboud, L. J. B. McArthur, J. Freemantle, G. Lesins, Remote sensing of aerosols from the Mideast to the High-Arctic : An Overview of Techniques and Recent Results, Invited Paper, CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, May 31-June 4, 2009 (ppt presentation).

Remote sensing of aerosols from the Mideast to the High-Arctic : An Overview of Techniques and Recent Results, York University, Oct. 26, 2007.

Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA, Recent developments in UV to SWIR* spectrometry from AERONET data, Aug. 9, 2007.

Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Nov. 5, 2004; Aerosol optical research at the Université de Sherbrooke.

AGU Spring meeting, May 17-21, 2004, Montréal, Québec, session chair (Aerosol, Ice, and Cloud Properties and Microphysics II)

Goddard Space Flight Center / NASA, Feb. 24, 2004; Analysis of spectral curvature in AERONET data.

CNR, Polar aerosol workshop, Bologna, Italy, Oct., 2003, CNR 1.AERONET – a brief overview 2.AERONET/AEROCAN activities in the Arctic.

Naval Research Laboratory (Monterey), Sept. 16, 2003; The multi-scale Canadian Air Quality model (GEM-AQ); evaluation and assimilation issues.

CEGEP de Sherbrooke, April 30, 2003, Teledetection des aerosols; breve revue des capteurs existants et des principes physiques impliqués.

AGU Spring meeting, May 28-31, 2002, Washington, D.C., session chair.

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, CCRS seminar series, December, 2001.

OSD workshop on radiometry, March 2001.

Collective Works

Schowengerdt, R. (ed.) O’Neill, N. T. (1999). Special Issue on Remote Sensing Models and Image Processing,. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensijg. Vol. 25, No 2, June, 1999.

O’Neill, N. T. (ed.) et Ranson, J., (1997). Numéro Spécial sur la Télédétection dans BORÉAS. Journal canadien de télédétection. Vol. 23, No 2.Juin 97.

O’Neill, N. T., (ed.), (1994). 16e Symposium canadien sur la télédétection, Numéro Spécial, Journal canadien sur la télédétection.

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Theses (lead supervisor)

Baibadov, K., (2009), Characterization of night-time aerosols using starphotometry, MSc. thesis, Université de Sherbrooke.

Yayla, M., (2009), An empirical approach to the remote sensing of chlorophyll in the optically complex waters of the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf, Ph.D. thesis, Université de Sherbrooke

Cizmeli, S. A., (2008), Propriétés optiques intrinsèques et apparentes des eaux du golfe de l’estuaire du Saint-Laurent : concordance optique, paramétrisation et variabilité spatio-temporelle, Mémoire de doctorat, Université de Sherbrooke.

Bergeron, M., (2004), Bilan d'erreur pour la correction atmosphérique d'images hyperspectrales dans le visible et le proche infrarouge, Mémoire de doctorat, Université de Sherbrooke.

Aube, M., (2003), Modélisation de l'évolution spatiale et temporelle de l'épaisseur optique des aérosols à l'échelle régionale, Mémoire de doctorat, Université de Sherbrooke.

Jacques, A., (2001), La télédétection passive de la chlorophylle dans l'Estuaire maritime du Saint-Laurent : optimisation spectrale des algorithmes de télédétection et application au SeaWiFS, Mémoire de doctorat, Université de Sherbrooke.

Nadeau, Christian (2000). Étude des effets atmosphériques sur la classification des minéraux de surface en milieu aride avec la méthode de déconvolution spectrale, Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Sherbrooke.

Cezmeli, Servet (1999). Remote sensing investigations into the loss of spatial information in Case II waters as a function of pixel size; application to SeaWiFS, Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Sherbrooke.

Létourneau, Guy (1995). Évaluation de l’applicabilité d’un modèle optique de la qualité des eaux des données radiospectrométriques: région du lac Saint-Pierre. Mémoire de maîtrise, Département de géographie et télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke. 125 p.

6 MSc. theses from 1988 to 1994.