Lucy Carpenter

Carpenter graduated with a BSc in chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1991 followed by a PhD in atmospheric chemistry at the University of East Anglia supervised by Stuart Penkett and awarded in 1996.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of East Anglia|url=http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/9551394?style=html|title=Measurements of peroxy radicals in clean and polluted atmospheres|first= Lucy Jane|last=Carpenter|date=1996|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.317982}}|website=copac.jisc.ac.uk|oclc=53665545}}

Her group studies the complex interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere, in particular the chemistry of reactive halogens, organic carbon, and reactive nitrogen.{{Google scholar id}} 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).{{cite journal|last1=Simpson|first1=W. R.|last2=von Glasow|first2=R.|last3=Riedel|first3=K.|last4=Anderson|first4=P.|last5=Ariya|first5=P.|last6=Bottenheim|first6=J.|last7=Burrows|first7=J.|last8=Carpenter|first8=L. J.|last9=Frieß|first9=U.|last10=Goodsite|first10=M. E.|last11=Heard|first11=D.|last12=Hutterli|first12=M.|last13=Jacobi|first13=H.-W.|last14=Kaleschke|first14=L.|last15=Neff|first15=B.|last16=Plane|first16=J.|last17=Platt|first17=U.|last18=Richter|first18=A.|last19=Roscoe|first19=H.|last20=Sander|first20=R.|last21=Shepson|first21=P.|last22=Sodeau|first22=J.|last23=Steffen|first23=A.|last24=Wagner|first24=T.|last25=Wolff|first25=E.|title=Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion|journal=Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics|volume=7|issue=16|year=2007|pages=4375–4418|issn=1680-7324|doi=10.5194/acp-7-4375-2007|bibcode=2007ACP.....7.4375S|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last1=Carpenter|first1=L. J.|last2=Sturges|first2=W. T.|last3=Penkett|first3=S. A.|last4=Liss|first4=P. S.|last5=Alicke|first5=B.|last6=Hebestreit|first6=K.|last7=Platt|first7=U.|title=Short-lived alkyl iodides and bromides at Mace Head, Ireland: Links to biogenic sources and halogen oxide production|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres|volume=104|issue=D1|year=1999|pages=1679–1689|issn=0148-0227|doi=10.1029/98JD02746|bibcode=1999JGR...104.1679C|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last1=Read|first1=Katie A.|last2=Mahajan|first2=Anoop S.|last3=Carpenter|first3=Lucy J.|last4=Evans|first4=Mathew J.|last5=Faria|first5=Bruno V. E.|last6=Heard|first6=Dwayne E.|last7=Hopkins|first7=James R.|last8=Lee|first8=James D.|last9=Moller|first9=Sarah J.|last10=Lewis|first10=Alastair C.|last11=Mendes|first11=Luis|last12=McQuaid|first12=James B.|last13=Oetjen|first13=Hilke|last14=Saiz-Lopez|first14=Alfonso|last15=Pilling|first15=Michael J.|last16=Plane|first16=John M. C.|title=Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean|journal=Nature|pmid= 18580948 |volume=453|issue=7199|year=2008|pages=1232–1235|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/nature07035|bibcode=2008Natur.453.1232R|s2cid=4430074}}

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.

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".{{cite web|last=Carpenter|first=Lucy|year=2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhOX8tY5lSE|website=youtube.com|title = What on Earth is happening to our atmosphere? Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture}} She received the Tilden Prize in 2017. In 2019, Carpenter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/lucy-carpenter-14083/|title=Professor Lucy Carpenter FRS |publisher=Royal Society |date=2019|author=Anon|website=royalsociety.org |access-date=2019-04-17}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}} 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".{{cite web |title=Lucy Carpenter : Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2023 |url=https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/vilhelm-bjerknes/2024/lucy-carpenter/ |website=European Geosciences Union |access-date=3 April 2024}}

Carpenter was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to atmospheric chemistry.{{London Gazette|issue=63571|supp=y|page=N17|date=1 January 2022}}

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