On Oct 18th, we successfully defended our bidding for an ANSO project, MORATOXA (Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Toxic Chemicals in the Air ) in Beijing. MORATOXA stands for a well extension of our completed SCP program, by which we are able to collaborate with six of our partners along the Maritime Silk Road. The key topic becomes air toxics and their health risks. We could image more international travels, to different countries in Africa , South Asia and Southeast Asia~!
Oct 16-17th, several group members attended the 6th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Health organized by Jinan University. The event took place in the Sunshine Hotel (阳光酒店) not far away from the institute. Zhang Gan and Shizhen gave presentations on the conference, respectively. Lele, Yingjian, Yuwei and Jianchu joined; this maybe their first international conference they attended.
On September 27-29, a group of us (Li Jun, Shizhen and Gan) paid anotrher visit to Ningbo Atmospheric Environment Observatory (NAEO) first setup by the group from 2008. Chen Yingjun, from Shanghai, and Zhang Yanlin, form Nanjing, came to meet with us for a dinner together in Ningbo. The NAEO was first setup by Zhang Yanlin, and then built by Liu Xiang and Li Jun. It has been taken care of by the ‘Shen brothers’ who have been very professional to keep the station running for 12 years! The facility needs another round of refurbishing. Besides, we also visited the famous Tiyige (天一阁）in the city, which is an ancient library, amazing.
