Professor Pauzi from University of Malaya is visiting the group for one and a half month (March 5-April 20). He is a distinguished professor and scientist having been working in the areas of organic pollution, organic geochemistry for more than 30 years. On March 23, he gave a talk on micro-plastic pollution; the talk received attention from many staffs in the lab. His office is BiaobenLou 707. All staff and students are welcome to talk with him. 
On March 2nd, a farewell gathering took place in Dongjiang Fish Village for seeing off Leigh Martindale. Leigh was supported by SEW-REAP to stay in China for 2 years for his PhD study on food supply chain in rural China. He is supervised by Dr David Tyfield, and was associated to the group. Dyring the last 2 years, he travelled to many places in China including those remote rural places. He was impressed by the young volunteers in the rural areas working for poverty relief. He also learned some Chinese. He left Guangzhou for Lancaster-U to complete his PhD thesis.
Leigh (back row, left 4) has been with us for 2 years. Shown are other SEW-REAP PhD students including Pere (Front right 4) from Spain and Scot (Back left 2) from the UK.
On Feb 28 2018, Gan Zhang was invited to give a speech on Khundkar Memorial Lecture in Department of Chemistry of Dhaka University. The speech was entitled ‘Fate of POPs in Asia and Nexus’. The Khundkar lecture was setup in memory of Professor Mukarram Hussain Khundkar who was the father of chemistry in Pakistan and Bangladesh. This was its 31st Lecture. It is interesting that Professor Orjan Gustafsson who is going to visit our group made the 26th Lecture of the kind Nov 4 2013. What a small world!
