Lucy Carpenter

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Lucy Carpenter

MBE FRS
Born
Lucy Jane Carpenter

(1969-10-21) 21 October 1969 (age 54)
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University of York
Thesis Measurements of peroxy radicals in clean and polluted atmospheres  (1996)
Doctoral advisor Stuart Penkett
Website www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/a-c/lcarpenter/

Lucy Jane Carpenter MBE FRS (born 21 October 1969) is professor of physical chemistry at the University of York and director of the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO). [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Education

Carpenter graduated with a BSc in chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1991 [1] followed by a PhD in atmospheric chemistry at the University of East Anglia supervised by Stuart Penkett [1] and awarded in 1996. [5]

Research and career

Her group studies the complex interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere, in particular the chemistry of reactive halogens, organic carbon, and reactive nitrogen. [1] [6] Her work on oceanic and atmospheric halogens has established this chemistry as an important component of tropospheric ozone cycling and makes use of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GCMS). [7] [8] [9]

She helped establish the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory, one of a few dozen World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) stations worldwide which monitor climate and air quality gases over long time scales, and was a lead chapter author of the WMO/United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2014 scientific assessment of ozone depletion. [1]

Awards and honours

Carpenter has received several awards for her research. She received a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 'Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences' in 2006, and was given the Rosalind Franklin Award from the Royal Society in 2015 for "her scientific achievement, her suitability as a role model and her project proposal to promote women in STEM". [10] She received the Tilden Prize in 2017. [11] In 2019, Carpenter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). [11] She was awarded the 2024 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal "for establishing a critical link between the production of trace gases in and over the oceans, atmospheric chemistry, and climate change". [12]

Carpenter was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to atmospheric chemistry. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Anon (2015). "Professor Lucy Carpenter". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  2. ↑ Lucy Carpenter publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ↑ "Professor Lucy Carpenter: Atmospheric Chemistry". york.ac.uk.
  4. ↑ "Athena Swan, Lucy Carpenter". york.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Carpenter, Lucy Jane (1996). Measurements of peroxy radicals in clean and polluted atmospheres. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of East Anglia. OCLC   53665545. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.317982.
  6. ↑ Lucy Carpenter publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  7. ↑ Simpson, W. R.; von Glasow, R.; Riedel, K.; Anderson, P.; Ariya, P.; Bottenheim, J.; Burrows, J.; Carpenter, L. J.; Frieß, U.; Goodsite, M. E.; Heard, D.; Hutterli, M.; Jacobi, H.-W.; Kaleschke, L.; Neff, B.; Plane, J.; Platt, U.; Richter, A.; Roscoe, H.; Sander, R.; Shepson, P.; Sodeau, J.; Steffen, A.; Wagner, T.; Wolff, E. (2007). "Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 7 (16): 4375–4418. Bibcode:2007ACP.....7.4375S. doi: 10.5194/acp-7-4375-2007 . ISSN   1680-7324.
  8. ↑ Carpenter, L. J.; Sturges, W. T.; Penkett, S. A.; Liss, P. S.; Alicke, B.; Hebestreit, K.; Platt, U. (1999). "Short-lived alkyl iodides and bromides at Mace Head, Ireland: Links to biogenic sources and halogen oxide production". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 104 (D1): 1679–1689. Bibcode:1999JGR...104.1679C. doi: 10.1029/98JD02746 . ISSN   0148-0227.
  9. ↑ Read, Katie A.; Mahajan, Anoop S.; Carpenter, Lucy J.; Evans, Mathew J.; Faria, Bruno V. E.; Heard, Dwayne E.; Hopkins, James R.; Lee, James D.; Moller, Sarah J.; Lewis, Alastair C.; Mendes, Luis; McQuaid, James B.; Oetjen, Hilke; Saiz-Lopez, Alfonso; Pilling, Michael J.; Plane, John M. C. (2008). "Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean". Nature . 453 (7199): 1232–1235. Bibcode:2008Natur.453.1232R. doi:10.1038/nature07035. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   18580948. S2CID   4430074.
  10. ↑ Carpenter, Lucy (2015). "What on Earth is happening to our atmosphere? Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture". youtube.com.
  11. 1 2 Anon (2019). "Professor Lucy Carpenter FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 17 April 2019. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  12. ↑ "Lucy Carpenter : Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2023". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  13. ↑ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N17.
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