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Lucy Carpenter
Birth Name:Lucy Jane Carpenter
Birth Date:21 October 1969
Workplaces:University of York
Thesis Title:Measurements of peroxy radicals in clean and polluted atmospheres
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317982
Thesis Year:1996
Doctoral Advisor:Stuart Penkett
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    Lucy Jane Carpenter (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]

    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.[4]

    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] 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).[5] [6] [7]

    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".[8] She received the Tilden Prize in 2017. In 2019, Carpenter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).[9] 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".[10]

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

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160301191455/https://royalsociety.org/people/lucy-carpenter-100000006/. 2016-03-01. Professor Lucy Carpenter. Anon. 2015. Royal Society. royalsociety.org. London. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    2. Web site: Professor Lucy Carpenter: Atmospheric Chemistry. york.ac.uk.
    3. Web site: Athena Swan, Lucy Carpenter. york.ac.uk. 2018-02-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20190506014514/https://www.york.ac.uk/research/athena-swan/benefits/lucy-carpenter/. 2019-05-06. dead.
    4. PhD. University of East Anglia. Measurements of peroxy radicals in clean and polluted atmospheres. Lucy Jane. Carpenter. 1996. . copac.jisc.ac.uk. 53665545.
    5. 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.. Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 7. 16. 2007. 4375–4418. 1680-7324. 10.5194/acp-7-4375-2007. 2007ACP.....7.4375S. free.
    6. Carpenter. L. J.. Sturges. W. T.. Penkett. S. A.. Liss. P. S.. Alicke. B.. Hebestreit. K.. Platt. U.. 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. 1999. 1679–1689. 0148-0227. 10.1029/98JD02746. 1999JGR...104.1679C. free.
    7. 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.. Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Nature. 18580948 . 453. 7199. 2008. 1232–1235. 0028-0836. 10.1038/nature07035. 2008Natur.453.1232R. 4430074.
    8. Web site: Carpenter. Lucy. 2015. What on Earth is happening to our atmosphere? Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture. youtube.com.
    9. Web site: Professor Lucy Carpenter FRS . Royal Society . 2019. Anon. royalsociety.org . 2019-04-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    10. Web site: Lucy Carpenter : Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2023 . European Geosciences Union . 3 April 2024.

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