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Group trip to Daya Bay & Sampling at Huizhou

From November 27 to 29th, some members of our group take a trip to Daya Bay in Shenzhen to find a temporary relief from routine research work. Later on ,we collected some water and sediment samples at Huizhou.

Family Portrait of members taken the trip

(Back row: Nigar,  Sun Yue, Dilanka, Geng Xiaofei, Zhang Gan, Pere,  Zhang Bolong, Zhao Shizhen, Xu Buqing, Jin Biao

Front row: Yi Xin, Luo Chunling, Chen Wenwen, Liu Xin.)

First Day

Our first stop was Dapeng Ancient City(大鹏古城),which was built from Ming Dynasty(yr1394). It is also currently the only national key cultural relics protection units(国家级重点文物保护单位)in Shenzhen.

Gracefully aged house

Budded flower on the old wall

Then we went to Yang Mei Keng(杨梅坑),where we had a romantic bike trip.

“One person powered” tandem bicyle

Cool boy on a cooler bike

Second Day

On 28th we waked up in our sea-view room and had a great time at the sandbeach at Xi Chong(西涌).

Lonely boats in the lonely sea

I am just like a boy playing at the beach of truth…(Newton)

The happiest married man in the world

Happy time

Third Day

Zhong Guangcai, Zhang Bolong, Xu Buqing , Yi xin and Sun Yue stayed in Huizhou for sampling work while others returned Guangzhou on the afternoon of 28th.

On 29th, we left from the shore at 7:30 a.m. and returned at 4:00 p.m. . About 140L water and 4 tubes of sediment were collected during the voyage.

Route map of sampling

Go! The destination of our journey are stars and the sea.

(我们的征途是星辰大海)

Sing a song to fight against the seasickness

Sediment sampling

Working on boat

Beautiful sea under the sunshine

Meeting at Conghua

On Nov 11-12, several of us gathered in Conghua (从化) for the third round discussion on the POPs Geochemistry book. We had a successful workshop and also enjoyed the nice hotel named Yiquan International (逸泉国际) and hot spring there.

10 of us.

A nice meeting room.

Good discussion.

Focus.

The 9th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry

On October 19-22, the 9th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry was held in Hangzhou, by Zhejiang University. It was a successful conference with more than 6000 people participated in.  Several current and previous group members attended and gave their talks. In particular, Cheng Hairong (成海容) was awarded best oral presentation in the session of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Zhang Gan helped with being one of the conveners of the Emerging Comtaminants (EC) session. We also met our ‘old’ friend Kevin Jones as a specially invited guest. Kevin in addition organized a small gathering of Lancaster-related people on the conference.

From left to right: 章炎麟,李琦路,李军,成海容,张干,林田,唐建辉,田崇国,王琰。

Kevin gave a keynote speech on EC session.

Professor Lucy gave an invited talk on EC session.

Professor Tang Jianhui summarized his work on BFRs in the Bohai Sea.

Hairong was awarded best oral presentation on VOC session.

 

Qilu talked about CPs in the air of Chinese cities.

Wang Yan presented his new study on BFRs in indoor decoration materials.

The Kevin’s part of the ‘Lancaster Gang’.

Lin Tian and Hairong are buddies.

Professor Fu Pingqing (傅平青) appeared on our photo scene. He is an outstanding aerosol chemist.

Me shot on the poster venue by a lovely Paparazzi.