“Wind-in-his-hair” Ssampling Campaign at Heshan in Preparation

2023-07-17 Weiru Wang

On July 17th, a small group of Shizhen, Engineer Li, Linbo, Lele, Jianchu and Weiru went to the Heshan air monitoring supersite, to maintain air sampling machines on the rooftop of the station building as well as supply 40 sets of sampling materials for summer sampling campaign. Despite of the heavy rain, we five struggled in the rain to protect Engineer Li and the machines.Finally, all the machines were complished flow correction. We look forward to the approaching sampling campaign.

Well-packaged sampling materials.

Professional Engineer Li was maintaining air sampling machines.

Us smiling in the rain.

GeoBBC、POM、学术会议

Dong’ao Island workshop

2023-07-17 Gan Zhang

On July the 10-11th, Shizhen, Jun and Gan joined a joint workshop between SYS-U, Institute of Tropical Forestry (ITF，热林所) and GIG. We also investigated potential air sampling sites on the small Dong’ao island（东澳岛）. It takes about 40 minutes to ferry from Zhuhai to the island. The trip was organized by Professor Chen Jianyao（陈建耀） of SYS-U and his team. Professors Zou Shichun （邹世春）of SYS-U, Zhou Guangyi （周光益）and Wang Xu （王旭）of ITF participated the event. Gan gave a talk on radiocarbon applications in delineating carbon dynamics on the Earth’s surface. It was extremely hot with strong sunshine. However, we quite a lot enjoyed the beautiful island scenery as guided by local government officers， especially being looked after by Dr Zhao Xinfeng（赵新锋）of Zhuhai Environmental Monitoring Centre. Per embankment Zhuhai, we had chance to enjoy a big feast prepared by Haoyu, with all group members of Professor Zou Shichun’s group in SYS-U. A nice trip!

ANSO、SCP、合作交流

A Sri Lanka update

2023-07-02 Gan Zhang

On June 25th-July 2nd, the team of four, Shizhen, Jun, Guangcai and Gan, restarted international travels after the long-lasting COVID-19. We first visited Sri Lanka to promote our ANSO MOROTOXA program. We left via Shanghai therefore we were able to pay a short visit to Lin Tian (林田、赵祯）et al. at Shanghai Ocean University where we also met Yingjun (陈颖军） and Prof Guo Zhigang （郭志刚）of Fudan University who joined thegathering. We arrived at Colombo in the evening of June the 26th, returned to Kunming on July 2 morning. In Kandy, We met Professor Karu and his colleagues with great pleasure; and visited the Postgraduate Institute of Sciences (PGIS) and the Sino-Sri Lankan Joint Centre for Research and Education at Peradeniya University. Shizhen and Jun demonstrated setting up the active sampler. Gan delivered presentations on the CKDu water tank sediment core study results, which attracted great attention, and the background of our ANSO MORATOXA program, of which Peradeniya University has been a partner. We had chance of cause to visit at the weekend several historic and natural attractions of Sri Lanka; and celebrated cheerfully at Trincomalee Shizhen’s birthday. A wonderful trip!

Formal meeting at China-Sri Lankan Joint Centre @Peradeniya University. shown here are Dr Suragong (left 2), Professor Shameen (left 3), and Professor Karu (right 4).