Lucy Jane Carpenter (born 21 October 1969) is
professor
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of
physical chemistry
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at the
University of York and director of the
Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO).
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Education
Carpenter graduated with a BSc in chemistry from the
University of Bristol
, mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'')
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in 1991
[ followed by a PhD in ]atmospheric chemistry
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at the University of East Anglia
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supervised by Stuart Penkett[ and awarded in 1996.]
Research and career
Her group studies the complex interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere, in particular the chemistry of reactive halogens, organic carbon
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, and reactive nitrogen.[ Her work on oceanic and atmospheric halogens has established this chemistry as an important component of ]tropospheric ozone
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cycling and makes use of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is an analytical method that combines the features of gas-chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify different substances within a test sample. Applications of GC-MS include drug detection, ...
(GCMS).
She helped establish the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory, one of a few dozen World Meteorological Organization
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(WMO) Global Atmosphere Watch
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...
(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
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(UNEP) 2014 scientific assessment of ozone depletion.[
]
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
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in 2015 for "her scientific achievement, her suitability as a role model and her project proposal to promote women in STEM".[ She received the ]Tilden Prize
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in 2017. In 2019, Carpenter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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(FRS).[ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: ]
Carpenter was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours
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for services to atmospheric chemistry.
References
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1969 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Academics of the University of York
21st-century British chemists
21st-century British women scientists
British women chemists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Female Fellows of the Royal Society
Members of the Order of the British Empire