On September 12-14, we organized an academic saloon gathering many of the current and former group members and those of our intimate collaborators. The saloon took place at a wetland field research station in the Huanghe River Mouth, which was established and has been managed by the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone (YIC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The event was also a element of the Environmental Geology and Geochemistry Committee of the Chinese  Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. Four keynote speeches, given by Professors Han Guangxuan (韩广轩, vice-director of YIC), Guo Zhigang (郭志刚，Fudan University), Tang Jianhui (唐建辉) and Shizhen (赵时真), respectively, invoked hours of lively discussions among the attendants. We had also time slot to go into the extremely beautiful Huanghe Mouth wetland for sightseeing. We have almost fixed  the  paradigm of the partners academic saloon of the group, and we will do it one or more times every year. Before the saloon, four of us (Shizhen, Jibing, Jun and Gan) together with Professor Chen Yingjun of Fudan University, also took the opportunity to climb to the top of the Taishan Mountain, which is definitely a great challenge! I also wrote two traditional Chinese poems to record the exiting experience and what was in my heart, upon the journeys.

【甲辰中秋黄河口】
蹈海黄龙生沃土，
荻花鹳鹤上云天。
蓬蒿欲抹胭脂色，
柽柳还思苦水咸。
叩首油机掬宝藏，
知青汗雨化新田。
莘莘鳗草随波浪，
矗石安澜有余闲。

   

【甲辰泰山】
山高路不远，
鎅石七千蹬。
步桥泉溪洌，
夹壑雾风清。
执杖入天门，
天街自在行。
惟耽玉皇顶，
咫尺在云中。