Academic Director
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Dr Rachel Dunk is Academic Director at the Crichton Carbon Centre. Rachel has an extensive research background covering biogeochemical cycles and global environmental change. After completing her PhD, Rachel took up a fellowship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California where her research focused on the behaviour, fate and impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ocean with implications for ocean storage of CO2, potential leakage of CO2 from sub-seafloor storage sites, and the high CO2 low pH ocean.
Rachel continued her research work at the University of York where she joined the Atmospheric Chemistry group investigating the natural flux of reactive halocarbon compounds from the surface ocean to the atmosphere. During this time Rachel also examined the potential of hydrothermal vents, gas vents and hydrate deposits to act as analogues for the leakage of CO2 from sub-seafloor geological storage sites. Rachel has also been a guest lecturer at the University of York in both the Environment Department, lecturing in Ocean and Coastal Processes; Carbon Capture and Sequestration, and the Chemistry Department, lecturing in Ocean Chemistry of the Greenhouse Gases CO2 and CH4.
As Director of Education, Rachel leads the CCC’s contribution to the MSc in Carbon Management, lecturing on the core modules Carbon, Climate & Change and Carbon Auditing & Management. Rachel continues her research interests and keeps the Centre up to date on the scientific and wider context of the challenges affecting the climate.
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