Shuduan’s paper “Contribution of Biomass Burning to Ambient Particulate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at a Regional Background Site in East China” was accepted by ES&T Letters. And this is her first English publication.
Jibing’s paper “Autochthonous bioaugmentation modified bacterial diversity of phenanthrene degraders in PAH-contaminated wastewater as revealed by DNA-stable isotope probing” was accepted by ES&T.
Congratulations!
On Jan 21_ 31st 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.
On Jan 18-20th, a kick-off meeting of Project 3 of ATMSYC was held in Asia Hotel (亚洲大酒店）of Wuhan. Special guests Ms Liang Shengwen （梁胜文） of Wuhan Environmental Monitoring Centre （武汉市环境监测中心）, Professor Jiang Yiguo （蒋 义国）of Guangzhou Medical Science University（广州医科大学） and Professor Li Bin （李兵） of Guangdong Maternal and Child Care Service Centre （广东省妇幼保健院）presented to comment on the research plan of ATMSYC Project 3, which aims at compiling a list of chemical air toxics for national control in China （国家管控有毒有害大气污染物名录筛选）. Gan Zhang gave a brief overview introduction of ATMSYC. Professor Wang Youjie (王友洁）who leads Project 3 gave detailed report on the research plan of the project.
Welcome and instruction in the hotel lobby.
An event going on.
A portrait of the attendants.
Prof Wang Youjie gave the keynote report.
The assessing panel. From left to right: 李兵、梁胜文、蒋义国.