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Rachael Beale
Analytical Marine Chemist
Environmental Science
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
United Kingdom
Dr Rachael Beale has worked at PML as an analytical chemist since January 2006. She gained her PhD whilst working, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia with supervisors Prof. Peter Liss (UEA) and Dr Philip Nightingale (PML). Her focus has been to develop analytical techniques to extract oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs) from seawater to further our understanding on the role of the ocean in the cycling of these atmospherically reactive gases. Rachael has a keen interest in marine trace gases and their atmospheric interaction, gas exchange processes and photochemical enhancement of carbonyls in the sea surface. She has a wide experience in method development, validation and instrumentation, including proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry and gas chromatography.
(DOGEE I & II, ICON and AMT19) measuring OVOCs and also involved with the use of SF6 and 3He as Lagrangian tracers.