Lucy Carpenter

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Discovery · The Life Scientific: Lucy Carpenter · 11 May 2026 podcast

And it was lava rock, basically extinct volcano, because Cape Verde is full of extinct volcanoes and active ones.

But from that site, you could look to the ocean, into the prevailing winds.

You're looking northeast into the winds.

And there the trade winds essentially bring round air that hasn't seen land for three or four days.

And they do that 95 percent of the time.

There are a lot of stations that want this clean air, but I mean, half the time they don't get it.

So it was great for that because it was like being on a ship, really, except for, you know, with all of the things that went along with that.

So trade winds bringing in that clean air.

And it was in the tropics, which are very few stations in the tropics.

The tropics are great.

They're like the engine room of the atmosphere.

All of this sunlight and water vapour creates a very rich chemical environment there.

And really what we wanted was a kind of station that could be used for shorter term field campaigns, but as a baseline to understand what was going on.

That's right.

We had to put in power lines.

We had to put in a base, a foundation.

We were very lucky that we had fantastic support from the Cape Verdean Met Office.

So they helped us to do that.

And we had to put a lab there.

So we got lab containers made in the UK.

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