Lucy Carpenter

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Professor of physical chemistry (born 1969)

Born

Lucy Jane Carpenter

(1969-10-21) 21 October 1969 (age 56)

Almamater

University of Bristol (BSc)
University of East Anglia (PhD)

Awards

Philip Leverhulme Prize
2006
Rosalind Franklin Award
2015
Tilden Prize
2017
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
2024

Fields

Atmospheric sciences
Ocean-air interactions
Halogens

Lucy Carpenter MBE FRS
Born	Lucy Jane Carpenter (1969-10-21) 21 October 1969 (age 56)
Alma mater	University of Bristol (BSc) University of East Anglia (PhD)
Awards	Philip Leverhulme Prize 2006 Rosalind Franklin Award 2015 Tilden Prize 2017 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2024
Scientific career
Fields	Atmospheric sciences Ocean-air interactions Halogens
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 (born 21 October 1969) is a British chemist who is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of York and director of the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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]

Carpenter is one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Assessment Panel^[10] for the Montreal Protocol and presented at the 37th Meeting of the Parties (MOP37) in Nairobi.^[11]

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".^[12] She received the Tilden Prize in 2017.^[13] In 2019, Carpenter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).^[13] 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".^[14]

Carpenter was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to atmospheric chemistry.^[15]

References

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)
↑ Lucy Carpenter publications from Europe PubMed Central
↑ "Professor Lucy Carpenter: Atmospheric Chemistry". york.ac.uk.
↑ "Athena Swan, Lucy Carpenter". york.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
↑ 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.
↑ Lucy Carpenter publications indexed by Google Scholar
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "SAP Members | Ozone Secretariat". ozone.unep.org. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
↑ York, University of. "Professor Carpenter Addresses Montreal Protocol Meeting on the Scientific Evidence of Ozone-Depleting Substances and Climate Gases". University of York. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
↑ Carpenter, Lucy (2015). "What on Earth is happening to our atmosphere? Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture". youtube.com.
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)
↑ "Lucy Carpenter : Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal 2023". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
↑ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N17.

Laureates of the Rosalind Franklin award of the Royal Society

Laureates

2024 Jess Wade
2023 Karen Johnson
2022 Diane Saunders
2021 Suzanne Imber
2020 Julia Gog
2019 Nguyen TK Thanh
2018 Tamsin Mather
2017 Essi Viding
2016 Jo Dunkley
2015 Lucy Carpenter
2014 Rachel McKendry
2013 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
2012 Polly Arnold
2011 Francesca Happé
2010 Katherine Blundell
2009 Sunetra Gupta
2008 Eleanor Maguire
2007 Ottoline Leyser
2006 Andrea Brand
2005 Christine Davies
2004 Carol V. Robinson
2003 Susan Gibson

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2019
Fellows	Salim Abdool Karim Charles Bangham Gurdyal Besra Manjul Bhargava Caucher Birkar Benjamin Blencowe James Briscoe Peter A. Butler Lucy Carpenter Sarah Darby George Davey Smith Martin Embley Bernie Fanaroff Jonathan Flint Véronique Gouverneur Christopher Hacon Mark Handley Richard Harland Peter H. Haynes Martin Head-Gordon Matthew Hurles Richard Jozsa Gagandeep Kang Steve A. Kay John-Michael Kendall Roy Kerr Jonathan C. Knight Marta Kwiatkowska Mark Mayer Gareth H. McKinley David G. Nicholls Christine Orengo Anne Osbourn Anant Parekh Julian Peto Caetano Reis e Sousa John Rodenburg Matthew Rushworth Leonid Sazanov Gregory D. Scholes Barbara Sherwood Lollar Molly Shoichet Liz Sockett Paraskevas Sphicas Jack W. Szostak Andrew D. Taylor Robert Tibshirani Ian Tomlinson Douglass Turnbull Akshay Venkatesh Kumar Wickramasinghe
Honorary	Yusuf Hamied
Foreign	Barry Barish Hans Clevers Sandra Díaz Jack Dongarra Elaine Fuchs Inez Fung David Milstein Akkihebbal Ravishankara James Rothman Brian Staskawicz

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