分类目录归档：atmsyc

NCEC 2019

2019-08-25 Gan Zhang

On Aug 15-18, The 2019 National Conference of Environmental Chemistry was held in Tianjin, organized by Nankai University as part of the celebration of the University’s 100 anniversary. It was a huge conference with about 8,000 attendants. Gan gave two keynote talks on two sessions, respectively. The titles of the talks were ‘Source-sink processes of POPs in Asia’ (POPs session) and ‘POPs in the urban atmosphere of China’ (Emerging Contaminants session). Gan was very happy to meet Prof Mei Surong (梅素容）of Central China University of S&T (华中科技大学同济医学院）who is a member of the ATMSYC project. he was also happy to see a PhD student, Gong Xinying（龚新颖）, of whom Zhao Zhen was one of the supervisors, in Nankai University. Former group members, Zhao Zhen, Zhang Yanlin etc also attended the Conference. Of course I met Kevin and Zhang Hao, again, and Kevin and I had an afternoon chat with coffee followed by drinks with Professor Liu Congqiang of Tainjin-U. Kevin was also invited to gave a keynote talk on the POPs session. And it was amazing that his and my talk fit extremely well and were highly supplementary with each other on the topic of global fate of POPs, although we did not know that both of us will be attending and same session ! Buddy no doubt!

With Professor Mei Surong, a member of the ATMSYC team.

Gong Xinying of Nankai-U who worked with Zhao Zhen.

Giving talks, and chairing the EC session.

Kevin was also invited to gave a keynote talk on the POPs session. I was happy to Chair part of the POP session.

atmsyc、潭影录

ATMSYC workshop and visits at wuhan

2019-06-24 Gan Zhang

On June 20-22, Shizhen, Li Jun, Jin Biao and Gan paid a visit to Wuhan. Xu Yue joined.

We first attended a workshop held by ATMSYC on the prioritization and list of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) for nation-wide control in China, which is a major task of ATMSYC. The discussions and ideas came with the workshop has been very successful and useful in the following name-listing job. One consensus is that we would provide 3 HAPs lists, one for nation-wide major source emission control, one for environmental health study/assessment in cities, and one as a need-to-care ‘theoretical’ list. The hostresses of the workshop, Professors Wang Youjie (王友洁) and Mei Surong (梅素容) invited us a feast welcome with Creyfish (小龙虾) in the famous ‘Liang-liang-zheng-xia’ (靓靓蒸虾) restaurant at Hankou (汉口).

On the next day, we payed a short trip in Wuhan University to see the landmark historic buildings of the university, guided by Hairong. Very memorable! We then went to China University of Geosciences (CUG) to meet Professor Qi Shihua (祁士华) and his team. We talked about potential joint collection of groundwater in the Jianghan plain （江汉平原）for a multiple purposes study on PFCs and DBC etc. Shizhen was happy to see Xing Xinli (邢新丽) and her son who she met in Lancaster. We also visited a source emission test lab by Professor Kong Shaofei (孔少飞), which was well established and looks impressive.

It has been 2 busy days, but indeed quite fruitful and enjoyable!

The workshop.

Group sisters.

Wuhan University, where Jin Biao graduated from and Hairong is working.

The historical student dormitory with arches and steep stairs. It was designed by an architecture from Havard University.

What year was it? The ‘old’ library.

atmsyc、博士后、潭影录

Atmsyc visit to lanzhou

2019-05-30 Gan Zhang

On May 26-29, Gan and Shizhen visited our STMSYC team in Lanzhou. They had a detailed discussion with profs Ma Jianmin, Gao Hong and Wang Tao, on the next-stage task from ATMSYC in the context of risk-assessment modeling, source-tag technique and a new model to be applied in the PRD demo, and the national air toxic assessment report etc. Gan also attended two other meetings, one on environmental science & technology education, and one for the Gansu Provincial Key Lab on Pollution Warning and Control, of which he is one of the academic panel members. They are also able to see the 14C lab of Lanzhou University, consisting of a MICADAS AMS and a dedicated graphite target-making line, operated by Prof. Wang Zongli (王宗礼). On the 28th afternoon, they took a short sightseeing trip to Xinglongshan (兴隆山）, which is quite greenery and with rich history. We’ve been really enjoying the fruitful collaboration with LZU, which could be tracked back to as early as the year of 2010.