分类目录归档：学术会议

GeoBBC、POM、学术会议

Dong’ao Island workshop

On July the 10-11th, Shizhen, Jun and Gan joined a joint workshop between SYS-U, Institute of Tropical Forestry (ITF，热林所) and GIG. We also investigated potential air sampling sites on the small Dong’ao island（东澳岛）. It takes about 40 minutes to ferry from Zhuhai to the island. The trip was organized by Professor Chen Jianyao（陈建耀） of SYS-U and his team. Professors Zou Shichun （邹世春）of SYS-U, Zhou Guangyi （周光益）and Wang Xu （王旭）of ITF participated the event. Gan gave a talk on radiocarbon applications in delineating carbon dynamics on the Earth’s surface. It was extremely hot with strong sunshine. However, we quite a lot enjoyed the beautiful island scenery as guided by local government officers， especially being looked after by Dr Zhao Xinfeng（赵新锋）of Zhuhai Environmental Monitoring Centre.  Per embankment Zhuhai, we had chance to enjoy a big feast prepared by Haoyu, with all group members of Professor Zou Shichun’s group in SYS-U. A nice trip!

GeoBBC、学术会议

NSFC Major Program “GeoBBC” – 2022 Annual Meeting

In April 21 to 23, 2023, the 2022 annual meeting of NSFC major program ‘Geochemical Behaviours and Environmental Effect of Black Carbon (BC) Substances (GeoBBC)’ took place in Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences. The annual meeting was organized by GIG,  in a hybrid form of online and on-site. Wei Li (李薇), Director of the Second Division of Earth Science Department of the NSFC, attended the meeting. Specially invited guests included were Profs Shu Tao (陶澍) of Peking University/Southern University of Science and Technology, Ping’an Peng (彭平安) of GIG, Yanxin Wang (王焰新) of China University of Geosciences, Tong Zhu (朱彤) of Peking University,  Fengchang Wu (吴丰昌) of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and Profs Junyu Zheng (郑君瑜) of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Bo Pan (潘波) of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Dongqiang Zhu (朱东强) of Peking University, Mei Zheng (郑玫) of Peking University and Yingjun Chen (陈颖军) of Fudan University. Hongping He (何宏平), Director of GIG, Hui Tian (田辉), Director of Science and Technology Department of GIG, Gan Zhang (张干), chief scientist of the major project, as well as the key members of the project attended the conference.

Hui Tian presided over the opening ceremony of the conference. Hongping He delivered a welcome speech and issued appointment letters to the members of the Scientific Steering Committee of the project. Wei Li introduced that the GeoBBC major program meets both the major national needs and scientific frontier; and has been recognized by the entire expert team during the bidding processes. Gan Zhang made an overall introduction to the project covering the background, key scientific problems, research objectives, expected achievements and main research progress in the year of 2022. Subsequently, Jianzhong Song, Yanlin Zhang, Junjian Wang and Guangcai Zhong introduced the annual progress report of the four sub-projects, respectively. The steering committee members gave full affirmation to the project; and put forward professional and constructive suggestions on the research regions, research contents, key tools, project outcome and the integrity of the GeoBBC. The meeting is timely for further development of the GeoBBC.

A group picture

Snapshots of the meeting

ANSO、合作交流、学术会议

Annual Seminar of ANSO MORATOXA Project

On November 4th 2022, the annual seminar of an international collaborative project supported by ANSO entitled “Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Toxic Chemicals in the Air (MORATOXA)” (ANSO-CR-KP-2021-05) was successfully held both online and offline on November 4th, 2022. About twenty experts attended this seminar, including the director of the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry and project leader, Prof. Zhang Gan, Prof. Ashan Habib from COMSATS University Islamabad in Pakistan, Prof. Michael Gatari from the University of Nairobi in Kenya, Dr Jabir Syed from COMSATS University Islamabad in Pakistan, Dr Bong Chui Wei from Universiti Malaya in Malaysia, Dr Parakrama Karunaratne from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. This seminar was chaired by the project secretary, Dr. Shizhen Zhao.

Prof. Zhang Gan extended a warm welcome to the participants. He introduced the recent progress and remarkable achievements of the cooperation projects with countries along the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” by relying on ANSO and other international organizations in recent years, and summarized the concept of MORATOXA project based on multilateral projects. Moreover, he affirmed the great significance of the project in promoting exchanges and cooperation, talent training, and promoting a “non-toxic” society. Then, Dr Zhao Shizhen presented the research background, implementation plan and progress that has been made on the project. Finally, the participating experts discussed in depth the scientific rationality of the overseas cooperative sampling scheme and put forward valuable suggestions on its feasibility according to local conditions.

On the basis of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” environmental and health cooperation network laid out by the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of CAS, the MORATOXA project is dedicated to the ‘Green Silk Road’ consensus of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). The program is hosted and technically supported by Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIGCAS), with the following six primary key partners, and is open to more partners world-widely, including COMSATS University Islamabad in Pakistan, University of Nairobi in Kenya, Universiti Malaya in Malaysia, University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana. MORATOXA project focus on air toxics and human health, taking the monitoring, risk assessment and control measures of air toxics as the main research contents, and carrying out multilateral international cooperation research in typical cities in different regions/countries.Dr Shizhen Zhao presented the project background and recent progressGroup photo of participants

Text  by Weiru Wang and Shizhen Zhao

Pictures by Weiru Wang