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Workshop on Environmental Monitoring Along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road

On May 26-27th, workshop on Environmental Monitoring Along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road took place at Room 308 of Biaoben Building, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS. The workshop was under a project of “Southern Contaminants Programme (SCP)” “南方污染观测与研究计划”, a CAS Belt & Road Initiative (中国科学院“一带一路”科技合作专项). Totally, more than 20 people participated the workshop, including two steering committee members of the project, Prof. Kevin C Jones from Lancaster University of UK and Prof. Mohamad Pauzi Bin Zakaria from University of Malaya, and six international partners, Dr. Muhammad Mansha from Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission of Pakistan, Dr. Jabir H. Syed from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology of Pakistan, Dr. Dwi Hindarti from Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Dr. Le Quang Dung from Vietnam, Prof. Md. Ahsan Habib from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Mr. Simion Kipkorir Bartilol from University of Nairobi, Kenya. We also specifically invited Prof. Hanping Zhuang, President and CEO of Jireh Technology of China, and Miss Ming Liu, Chief Representative of Technology and Innovation at the British Consulate-General Guangzhou. The workshop mainly consists of five sessions including welcome and background introduction by Gan, participants’ introductions, roundtable discussions, group discussions and lab tour. The workshop provides a good opportunity to meet and discuss deeply with each SCP partner, thus leading an extension of the international research network on toxic chemicals from East South Asia to South Asia and East Africa.

Icebreaker at Ramada Hotel
Welcome and background introduction by Prof Gan, head of the project.
Lab tour.
Group discussions. Participants were divided into three groups and discussed questions proposed in the previous sessions.
Back row from left to right: Ming Liu (刘明), Mohamad Pauzi Bin Zakaria, Kevin C Jones, Mahdi Safaei Khorram, Md. Ahsan Habib, Jabir H. Syed, Simion Kipkorir Bartilol, Manqing Wu (吴曼青), Guangcai Zhong and Hanping Zhuang (庄汉平). Front row from left to right: Wenwen Chen, Jun Li, Xin Liu, Dilanka, Le Quang Dung, Biao Jin, Gan Zhang, Muhammad Mansha, Dwi Hindarti and Shizhen Zhao.

 

Photo taken in front of Zhenhai Building
Waiting for the amazing Peal River night cruise
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Professor Örjan Gustafsson visit

Professor Örjan Gustafsson (Prof Örjan), Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor of Stockholm University, was invited to visit GIG from April 16th-22nd. During the one week visit, Prof Örjan was showed around various advanced equipment of “State Key Laboratory of Geochemistry (SKLOG)” and “State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry (SKLOIG)”, gave two academic reports entitled “Large model-observation offsets in aerosol light absorption over Asia, why?” and “Cryosphere-carbon on top of the earth: organic geochemical investigation of thawing permafrost and collapsing methane hydrates in the Arctic”, and talked to colleagues and graduate students of SKLOG individually. The communications between Prof Örjan and members of SKLOG were focused on three research tracks: 1) radio carbon isotope technology and application, 2) environmental processes of black/brown carbon substances in Asian atmosphere, and 3) environmental effects of thawing permafrost and collapsing methane hydrates. Multiple collaborative plans have been consequently established.

On the 20th to 22nd, Örjan, Gan, Guangcai and Junwen went to Guilin where they visited the Longji Terraced Paddy Field (龙脊梯田）and River Li（漓江）, respectively. Against the picturesque scenery the group were able to talk extensively detail about ongoing and future collaborations. The trip finished with a farewell in Yangshou (阳朔）, and Örjan continued his trip to Beijing to visit Professors Tao Shu  (陶澍）and Zheng Mei  (郑玫）of Peking University and Professor Kang Shichang (康世昌）of Institute of Tibetan Plateau, CAS.

“This is absolutely my best trip to Asia, so far,” Örjan said. The visit is supported by “Southern Contaminants Programme (SCP)”, an International Partnership Program of CAS under the framework of Belt and Road Scientific Collaboration Initiatives.

With AMS senior engineer Dr Zhu Sanyuan (mid).

14C graphite target lines, with Drs Wang Ning (left) , Ding Ping (right) and Cheng Zhineng (far mid, the Ionplus engineer).

With PhD students Xu Buqing (Oxalic CSRA), Tang Tiangang (IVOC-Naphth CSRA) and Zhang Bolong (methane sampling apparatus development).

With Prof Jin Biao (mid, stable isotopes), and postdoctors Ms Liu Xin (secretary of B&R Program, left) and Miss Zhao Shizhen (secretary of China Air Toxic Programme, right).

Longji terraced paddy fields. ‘Longji’ means ‘the dragon backbones’.

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Professor Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria from Malaysia

Professor Pauzi from University of Malaya is visiting the group for one and a half month (March 5-April 20). He is a distinguished professor and scientist having been working in the areas of organic pollution, organic geochemistry for more than 30 years.  On March 23, he gave a talk on micro-plastic pollution; the talk received attention from many staffs in the lab.  His office is BiaobenLou 707. All staff and students are welcome to talk with him.