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Speech on Khundkar Memorial Lecture of Dhaka University

2018-03-07 Gan Zhang

On Feb 28 2018, Gan Zhang was invited to give a speech on Khundkar Memorial Lecture in Department of Chemistry of Dhaka University. The speech was entitled ‘Fate of POPs in Asia and Nexus’. The Khundkar lecture was setup in memory of Professor Mukarram Hussain Khundkar who was the father of chemistry in Pakistan and Bangladesh. This was its 31st Lecture. It is interesting that Professor Orjan Gustafsson who is going to visit our group made the 26th Lecture of the kind Nov 4 2013. What a small world!

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Signing of MoA between GIGCAS and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

2018-02-05 Gan Zhang

On 28^th-31^stJan of 2018, Prof. Gan Zhang, Dr. Xin Liu and Manqing Wu were invited to visit Bangladesh for signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with University of Dhaka, to further strengthen collaboration in our ongoing project, Southern Contaminants Programme (SCP, 2017-2019). The MoA covers several areas including exchange of researchers, cooperation on scientific and educational activities, and sharing of academic resources. Professor Habib from Department of Chemistry made great effort to facilitate this cooperation. Many thanks to his enthusiastic hospitality, we met a lot of host friends and visited a heavily polluted river (Buringanga) and a dumping site (Demra). In fact, Prof. Habib and his group members have deployed 1 AAS and ~40 PAS across Bangladesh.

Old campus of University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (UDB). British colonial architecture.

Public lab for undergraduate. We saw our old friend, a rotary evaporator.

Being surrounded by local students, extremely feeling good.

World-famous Professor Gan was warmly welcomed and awarded a “Welcome Medal” by Prof. Abu Jafar Mahmood (left) and Prof. Abdus Salam (right) from Department of Chemistry, UDB.

The signing of the MoA between GIGCAS and UDB.

A short discussion with Vice-Chancellor of UDB, Professor Md. Akhtaruzzaman, after the signing. They believed the MoA would definitely pave the ground to help reinforce and further expand cooperation.

Our first PAS on the roof of Department of Chemistry building.

Buringanga River, dark and smelly.

A dog was strolling among pungent garbage dump. He never knows he is living in such a high exposure risk environment.

Prof Gan was introducing GIGCAS and SCP to members of Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR).

Gracious Uncle Gan.

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Sampling trip to Sri Lanka in January 2018

2018-02-02 Zhao Shizhen

On Jan 21^_31^st of 2018, three group members, Prof. Jun Li, Dr. Guangcai Zhong and Dr. Shizhen Zhao visited Dr. Parakrama Karunaratne from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. This designed sampling campaign mainly focuses on the current air pollution and historical environmental change in Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) region, which has been key human health issue for more than two decades in Sri Lanka. Many thanks to the strong support from Dr. Parakrama Karunaratne and his excellent team, 65 passive air samplers were installed in Polonnaruwa region with high, medium and low CKDu prevalence. Meanwhile, six sediment cores were sampled in three Ancient Water Tanks (AWTs). Future collaboration plan was also in-depth discussed. We look forward to productive output from this sampling campaign and more intensive cooperation in future. This work is part of our on-going project, Southern Contaminants Programme (SCP, 2017-2019), which is based on international collaboration and funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as part of its Belt & Road Initiatives.