分类目录归档:GeoBBC

Embark on Indian Ocean Cruise

From January 20 to 21, 2025,  Geng Xiaofei,  Wang Wanzhe, and Shao Yingjian completed final preparations at the Nanshan Port Public Research Dock in Yazhou District, Sanya City, Hainan Province, for a scientific expedition to the Indian Ocean. The mission, aboard the R/V Xiangyanghong 01 (向阳红01) operated by First Marine Institute, Department of Natural Resources aims to collect critical atmospheric and seawater samples to advance understanding of marine carbon cycle and environmental fate of PFAS.

R/V Xiangyanghong 01 

Air Samplers

Shao Yingjian, Geng Xiaofei, Wang Wanzhe (from left to right)

We were happy that the equipment loading task had been successfully completed

Wan Zhe was excited for the upcoming Indian Ocean Cruise

GeoBBC mid-term assessment

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.

Academic saloon at Zhuhai

On July 21-22, we had an academic saloon focused on Carbon Speciation and Carbon Dynamics in the Haiquanwan Resort of Zhuhai.  Attendee to the academic saloon were by invitation only. A total of 20 previous and current group members joined the event. Professor Qi Shihua (祁士华) of CUG-Wuhan presided the saloon. Professor Chen Yingjun (陈颖军)of FDU gave a keynote speech on the speciation, emission and atmospheric effects of black carbon; Professor Hu Limin (胡利民)of OUC delivered a keynote speech on the organic carbon geochemistry on the continental shelf of Asian marginal seas. Each keynote stimulated a lot of comments and discussions over the topic. In the afternoon, Professor Tan Yujun (谭羽俊)of SYSU gave an introduction of his group and new progress in atmospheric halo chemistry; and Professor Lai Senchao(赖森潮) of SCUT gave a talk on his new findings in bioaerosols. On the second day, we had time to visit together the Jintai Temple (金台寺), which nicely situated at the hill top with the Huangyang Reservoir as the front view. We also visited a small old but reconstructed village, the Jiexia Village (接霞庄), where we enjoyed specially-baked chicken. The Saloon becomes a nice public platform for all previous, current group members and specially invited guests.  We will make it annual and more attractive.