On December the 29th, a group of us took pictures and had dinner together farewelling Cheng Xianghui (程相会) and Zhang Zheng’en (张正恩) , who have successfully completed their PhD studies in the group and become of new ‘Doctors’. With their PhD gowns on, the two beautiful ladies took pictures with boys and girls in the group. We had a ‘big’ dinner followed by Kara-OK in a hidden restaurant. Memorable time and memorable moments. We wish them all the best in future life.
On Dec 27th, Shizhen went to Dongguan to receive her certificate of Outstanding Young Environmental Scientist (Gold Award), issued by the Guangdong Association of Environmental Sciences （广东省环境科学学会、优秀青年环境科学家奖-金奖）. A total of 5 young scientists were selected as winners of the honor. Professor Peng Ping’an of GIG presented the award certificate to all the winners, including Shizhen. Congratulations!
On December 11, several GeoBBCcore members including Zhang Yanlin of NUIST, Wang Junjian of SUSTECH, Song Jianzhong, Zhao Shizhen, Lu Yazhou and Zhang Gan of GIG attended the Mid-term assessment event (基金委地学重大项目中期评估） which, organized by NSFC, was held in XiJiao Hotel （西郊宾馆) at Beijing. Gan reported the overall progress and achievement of the GeoBBC program (15 minutes), followed by 4 project reports delivered by Song Jianzhong, Zhang Yanlin, Wang Junjian and Zhang Gan, respectively, each 5 minutes. Yazhou prepared and brought all financial things, and communicated with the financial audit team in the venue. Yangzhi helped in preparing and collecting all relevant stuffs for the Mid-term assessment, and all team members had a very busy fortnight, preparing for the assessment event. There were six NSFC ultra programmes being assessed by 15 experts assigned by NSFC. The GeoBBC program was evaluated to be ‘Super Excellent’ (特优), which denotes a milestone and great achievements of our GeoBBC.
