On Dec 27th, Shizhen went to Dongguan to receive her certificate of Outstanding Young Environmental Scientist (Gold Award), issued by the Guangdong Association of Environmental Sciences （广东省环境科学学会、优秀青年环境科学家奖-金奖）. A total of 5 young scientists were selected as winners of the honor. Professor Peng Ping’an of GIG presented the award certificate to all the winners, including Shizhen. Congratulations!
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.
On Dec 9th, Shizhen and Gan attended the Symposium on New Pollutants (新污染物研究与治理大会) which was organized by China Association of Environmental Sciences (中国环境科学学会）and Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (中国环境科学研究院）in Beijing. Gan gave two invited talks, one on ‘Regional transport and source-sink processes of new pollutants’ , one on ‘An environmental atmospheric science perspective on new pollutans in the atmosphere’. Shizhen gave a talk on MNPs and TWPs in the urban atmosphere. All the three talks were well received by the audiences who showed great interest in our thinkings and findings. After the symposium, we had chance to have dinner with Yi Xin (怡欣） and Lin Tian （林田） who were around.
