ANSO、SCP、合作交流

A Sri Lanka update

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).

Demonstrating the operation of the hi-vol sampler dedicated to MORATOXA Program.

Formal visit to PGIS. Shown here are Professors Pitawala (left 4), Karu (left 5), and Dr Suragong (right 2).

An ad-hoc visit to Shanghai Ocean University before departure for Sri Lanka.

See the elephants @Pinnawara.

The @Dambulla rock temple is a world cultural heritage site.

Cheerful Shizhen @Sigiria (Lion Rock).

Weekend visit to @Trincomalee.

Birthday greetings at the Blue Sand Beach @Trincomalee.

Visiting a tea factory and buying gift tea. @Kandy

We enjoyed a lot the King coconut.

Lunar explore

Returning the lunar regolith sample

On June the 12th afternoon, the team of three, Guangcai, Shizhen and Gan escort the lunar regolith sample back to China Lunar and Deep Space Expenditure headquarter (中国月球与深空探测中心） at Beijing. We applied the regolith sample (6,000 mg) for searching organic matters on the moon. We are proud that important progress has been, quite likely, made! We hope to announce our findings soon this year, despite huge amount of work in laboratory are still needed for more stories. I would like to record more pictures of this memorial moment.

Click here to see more about the regolith sample we retrieved.

 

Air-Omics、ANSO、GeoBBC、POM

Active air sampler in place at Nairobi

The mid-vol active air sampler dedicated to ANSO program has been setup at a rooftop on the campus of Nairobi University. This denotes a substantial progress of our ANSO program MORATOXA.  The Air-Omics made great efforts to bring this into reality. The sampler was configured and produced solely to our group, that with a small size but full function and robust. Shown in the picture are some familiar faces. We hope we can visit Kenya again.

Click to see our last visit: Kenya Visit on 4-15 August | 优秀花园 (garden-of-excellence.cn)

Professor Michael Gatari (right 1) and Mrs Simion (Right 2) and Mosses (Left 2)

Specially designed/configured mid-vol active air sampler dedicated to ANSO Program MORATOXA