Liu Xin attended Dioxin 2016 International Symposium in Florence, Italy.
Welcome addresses by the Chairs (Prof. Paolo Mocarelli and Prof. Paolo Brambilla)
Reception on the lawn. People were drinking and talking pretty freely.
Show up on the first day. It promised to be an exciting day.
Finally, it’s my turn:)
Sampling forest soil in Hainan (2015.1.17-22)
On the 17th-22nd of January several group members went to Hainan for collecting forest soil samples from rubber trees and Eucalyptus trees. The aim of the study is to investigate the role of land use change in the cycling of carbon and POPs in the tropical environment. Besides, passive air samplers were also installed in the locations as part of the study.
A rubber tree forest.
Prof Tao was introducing the cutting of rubber trees to the group.
A close look at the rubber juice.
With the rubber tree leaves.
A picnic lunch in the field.
This is the famous Hainan Chaotian Chilli （海南朝天椒）. On the back is the beautiful hotel where the group stay.
Undergraduates from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
did their winter interne in the group (15.1.26-15.2.5)
In Jan. 25th, two undergraduates (Ke Meng, Bolong Zhang) from Lisiguang college, China university of Geosciences came to our group for theirwinter interne. They are top students (will be graduate in 2016) who thought to be promising graduates in the near future.
During their stay in GIG, They used PLFAs analysis to explore the microbial communities in atmospheric particulates, samples collected in Wuhan, under the guaidance from Yishan Jiang. After the 2 week study, the two handsome boys excellently completed their task with main conclusions as follows:
Conculusion1: Atmospheric particulates in downtown (Wuhan city) have more microbes than those in the suburb:
Conclusion2: Common bacteria and eucaryon are most widely existed microbes in the atmospheric particulates:
Conclusion3: Bacteria increase when getting closer to downtown and decrease when moving away from the city:
Meng Ke (孟珂，left) and Zhang Bolong (张伯龙，right) working in the lab.
（Text and picture by Jiang Yishan; Result plots by Meng Ke and Zhang Bolong)