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Gan gave a talk on SEW-REAP Closing Conference

On 27th of March, Gan was invited to give a keynote speech on SEW-REAP closing conference jointly hosted by Lancaster University, South China Agricultural University (SCAU) and GIG. He talked about ” Personal perspective on pollution issues and priorities – air, soils, waters'” in the “Pollution” section chaired by Kevin and Silvia. SEW-REAP project is funded by the EU and aimed to “Addressing food Security, Environmental stress and Water by promoting multidisciplinary Research EU And China Partnerships in science and business”.

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Ghana forum on Global health and wellbeing

On March 19-24, Shizhen and Gan visited Lancaster University at Ghana attending a forum on Global Health and Wellbeing. They were invited by Professor Kirk Semple who is the director of international engagement of Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), LU. The Forum took place in Accra, the capital city of Ghana.

The forum started with an each 5 min introduction of 6 ongoing or completed projects which LEC  leads or participates in on health and wellbeing in Africa and China. An extensive group discussion about how the impact of these projects can be achieved/designed followed. The form of the forum could be highly counted/adapted in our coming April SETAC A/P focus meeting, which aims to design an international programme on environment and health along the 21st Maritime Silk Road, including Africa.

We were also delighted to meet some ‘old’ friends including Roger Pickup on the forum. Shizhen was cheerful to meet Kirk who taught class to her while she was studying in LU.

Invited by William, we were able to visit the Water Research Institute (WRI) of Ghanaian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSRI) where we had discussion with Dr Asante who was a PhD student of Eheme University in Japan and supervised by Professor Shinsuke Tanabe who Gan knows well.  We achieved tentative agreement on collaboration and Asante wishes to send William to China for PhD study with us.

We also, guided by William, payed a quick visit to the e-waste recycling site in Accra. Educated as a geologist, Gan identified a famous Marr Lake, the Bosumtwi Lake, ~4 hrs driving away of Accra but close to the largest e-waste recycling city of  Kumasi, Ashanti Tribe/Administrative Region, where most of the cocoa in Ghana grows and gold-mining activity take place.   

The trip included a long travel time of 24-26 hrs on the way each to and back, but it has been great and very much memorable.

A collection of the participants.

Shizhen to meet her teacher-Kirk ( 可可）.

A former LU PhD student, Arkan, narrated the forum. He is a genius in narrating a forum and now running a company in LU providing consulting services to people who is going to work with Africa. 

William (middle) is a research scientist in Water Research Institute (WRI) of Ghanaian CSIR.  He would like to work with us for his PhD study, but he is 36 years old already.

Asante (right) was a PhD student of Dr Tanabe at Ehime University of Japan. They showed us the WRI laboratory and wish a formal collaboration on e-waste related pollution and health. 

Shizhen likes this picture thanks to the camera man.

A local food market co-locates with solid waste recycling ground.

It was a hot day in Accra, Ghana. And Accra is a safe city.

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Derek MUIR VISIT SKLOG

On March 6th, Derek Muir, from Water Science & Technology Directorate, Environment Canada, visited SKLOG. Derek first gave a talk entitled ‘Challenges in identifying persistent and bioaccumulative chemicals of global concern’ in TU406 class room; then walked through SKLOG labs.  In meeting room 619, with Jin Biao, Mai Bixian and Shizhen, Gan introduced to Derek in detail GIG and SKLOG, as well as research highlights in SKLOG environmental division. The visit finished with a nice lunch in Dongjiang Fish Village.

After back, Derek sent me an email writing: ‘I very much enjoyed my visit to GIG on Wednesday. You have very impressive analytical facilities and I will be informing scientists at CCIW about this. Maybe some future collaborations will develop although most of the younger scientists face major hurdles for doing international work, unlike the situation when you visited CCIW 19 years ago.’  This refers to my first visit to him in CCIW (Canadian Centre for Inland Waters) in the year of 2000, when I was astonished by a full room of GC and GC-MS, whilst we had only several GC-MS in SKLOG at that time!

Derek is one of the pioneers in the world in POPs research. He directs an environmental chemistry group that studies sources, fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants, chemicals of emerging concern, polycyclic aromatic compounds, mercury, and heavy metals in the freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environment. He has co-chaired the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, POPs expert committee, since the mid-1990s and has co-led several AMAP and Canadian assessments of POPs in the Arctic which were published as special issues of Science of the Total Environment. He has served on several Canadian and International advisory committees including UNEP-Stockholm Convention POPs Assessment working group for Western Europe and other Governments, and the WEHO/UNEP Panel on Global Assessment of the State-of-the-Science of Endocrine Disruptors.

Muir was awarded the SETAC Founder’s Award in 2000 for work on persistent organic pollutants. He is a SETAC Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ( 加拿大皇家学会院士）and the Chemical Institute of Canada. He was listed in Thomson-Reuters Highly cited.com “World’s Most Influential scientific minds, 2014” ranked among the top 1% most cited in the field of Environmental Science/Ecology.