项目

Closing the STS project on illicit drugs control

On Jan the 26th afternoon, an expert committee came to the institute for the final assessment of our STS (Sci&Technol Service) project on key technologies in illicit drugs control. The committee was led by Professor Mo Cehui (莫测辉) of JNU, joining with professors Lai Senchao (赖森潮) of SCUT, Guo Pengran of Guangdong Institute of Analytical and Testing Technology (郭鹏然，广东省科学院分析测试技术研究所) and Liu Junwen of JNU. The STS project, with collaborators from SYSU, Damo Co Ltd （大陌科技）and Hexin Co Ltd （禾仪质谱）, developed key technologies spanning from wastewater based epidemiology (WBE), passive air sampling (PAS), online VOCs analysis, stable isotopes etc to remit the critical need of the local government/police on the effective control of illicit drugs. The committee members all gave high praise of the outcomes of the project. Liu Xin helped initiating and carrying-out the project, while in the meantime brought up herself as a police lady who works with illicit drug control. Buqing prepared the technical report, Shizhen arranged the event. Despite we have decided to stop dealing with illicit drugs, we would still continue with our endeavor on wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)!

The event.

Snapshots of the project activities.

Liu Xin, by carrying out the STS project, has made herself a lovely and professional police lady.

Buqing and Shizhen managed the event.

博士后

Vahab completed his PDRF

On January 25th, Vahab made his PDRA final report over a group of professor panel members. Included in the panel were Zou Shichun of SYSU, Tang Jianhui of YIC, Li Jun, Hu Jianfang and Song Jianzhong of GIG. Vahab has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow for almost 5 years and contributed to our institute. Now he plans to go back to Iran and find a job to start his new journey. Best wishes and congratulations!

GeoBBC

NSFC major program “GeoBBC” – 2023 annual meeting

On the 16 -17th of January 2024, the 2023 annual meeting on “Black Carbon: Geochemical fate and environmental effects (GeoBBC)”, a major program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), was held at the Jiayi International Hotel in Guangzhou.

Li Wei (李薇), Deputy Director of the Department of Earth Sciences of NSFC, Academician Tao Shu (陶澍) from Peking University/Southern University of Science and Technology, Academician Peng Ping’an (彭平安) from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG), Academician Wang Yanxin (王焰新) from China University of Geosciences (CUG), Academician Zhu Tong (朱彤) of Peking University,  Professors Pan Bo (潘波) of Kunming University of Technology, Zhu Dongqiang (朱东强) and Zheng Mei (郑玫) of Peking University, and Chen Yingjun (陈颖军) of Fudan University attended the meeting as seering committee members. Professor/academician He Hongping (何宏平), Director of GIG, Tian Hui (田辉), Director of Science and Technology Department of GIG, and Zhang Gan (张干), chief scientist of the major project, as well as the project leaders and backbones attended the meeting.

The opening ceremony of the conference was chaired by Tian Hui and a welcome speech was delivered by He Hongping. In her speech, Li Wei addressed that the major project was approved in 2021 and started in 2022. The project has been running for two years, with outstanding works, rich achievements and good progress. In addition, Li Wei suggested that the project should further be in line with the national demand and the “dual-carbon” strategy, strengthen target-oriented design, and face mid-term inspections. Zhang Gan gave a general introduction to the project from the aspects of project background, major research progress in 2023, and research plan for 2024. Then Song Jianzhong, Zhang Yanlin and Wang Junjian reported the annual progress of each sub-project, respectively.

The steering committee members fully agreed with the importance of the project. At the same time, constructive suggestions were made in terms of research scopes, innovative breakthroughs and project integrity, followed by in-depth discussions among the project leaders and backbone members. In response to the questions and suggestions raised by the attending experts, the project leaders and key members had a lively exchange and discussion, which helps with the next-year research plan.