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Prof. Wanida Jinsart visited the group

During 2nd~7th July, two visitors from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Prof. Wanida Jinsart and her Master student, Nareerat Punvitayakul (Neng), visited our group. This is the first time for them to visit our institution and they are very excited to walk through the SKLOG labs, with the companion of Dr. Zhong. Prof. Wanida also spoke highly on our well-equipped labs. During the visit, she gave a talk on “air pollution and health effects”, introducing the research progress on air quality and human health study in Thailand. Meanwhile, Jiaqi and Jiao Tang also presented their PhD projects to Prof. Wanida and had helpful discussions. In spare time, they also explored the city and visited some tourist sites, including Canton Tower, Chen Clan Temple and Beijing road.

Neng will stay with us for another month to analyze the PAHs and PCBs in passive air samples from Bangkok and Chiengmai, under the help of Lele.  This is also the main part of her master thesis.  We wish she had a great time here.

In front of the GIG logo. 

Special gifts from Thailand.

Visit the lab.

The presentation.

Prof. Gan and beautiful ladies. Prof. Luo and Prof. Wanida had met in Bangkok last year. 

Limited edition of SKLOG mug to Prof. Wanida. 

Having Dim Sum in Ramada. Prof. Wanida and Neng love the Cantonese food very much and they cannot help saying “yummy”. 

ATMSYC workshop and visits at wuhan

On June 20-22, Shizhen, Li Jun, Jin Biao and Gan paid a visit to Wuhan. Xu Yue joined.

We first attended a workshop held by ATMSYC on the prioritization and list of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) for nation-wide control in China, which is a major task of ATMSYC. The discussions and ideas came with the workshop has been very successful and useful in the following name-listing job. One consensus is that we would provide 3 HAPs lists, one for nation-wide major source emission control, one for environmental health study/assessment in cities, and one as a need-to-care ‘theoretical’ list. The hostresses of the workshop, Professors Wang Youjie (王友洁) and Mei Surong (梅素容) invited us a feast welcome with Creyfish (小龙虾) in the famous ‘Liang-liang-zheng-xia’ (靓靓蒸虾) restaurant at Hankou (汉口). 

On the next day, we payed a short trip in Wuhan University to see the landmark historic buildings of the university, guided by Hairong. Very memorable! We then went to China University of Geosciences (CUG) to meet Professor Qi Shihua (祁士华) and his team. We talked about potential joint collection of groundwater in the Jianghan plain (江汉平原)for a multiple purposes study on PFCs and DBC etc.  Shizhen was happy to see Xing Xinli (邢新丽) and her son who she met in Lancaster.  We also visited a source emission test lab by Professor Kong Shaofei (孔少飞), which was well established and looks impressive.

It has been 2 busy days, but indeed quite fruitful and enjoyable!

The workshop.

Group sisters.

Wuhan University, where Jin Biao  graduated from  and Hairong is working.

The historical student dormitory with arches and steep stairs.  It was designed by an architecture from Havard University.

What year was it? The ‘old’ library.

Atmsyc visit to lanzhou

On May 26-29, Gan and Shizhen visited our STMSYC team in Lanzhou. They had a detailed discussion with profs Ma Jianmin, Gao Hong and Wang Tao, on the next-stage task from ATMSYC in the context of risk-assessment modeling, source-tag technique and a new model to be applied in the PRD demo, and the national air toxic assessment report etc.  Gan also attended two other meetings, one on environmental science & technology education, and one for the Gansu Provincial Key Lab on Pollution Warning and Control, of which he is one of the academic panel members. They are also able to see the 14C lab of Lanzhou University, consisting of a MICADAS AMS and a dedicated graphite target-making line, operated by Prof. Wang Zongli (王宗礼). On the 28th afternoon, they took a short sightseeing trip to Xinglongshan (兴隆山), which is quite greenery and with rich history. We’ve been really enjoying the fruitful collaboration with LZU, which could be tracked back to as early as the year of 2010. 

The collaboration could be tracked back to 2010.
The IonPlus MICADAS AMS facility in LZU.
Prof Wang Zongli developed this graphite line.
A short trip to Xinglongshan.
Dr Zhao Shizhen enjoyed the relax.
Image by Huawei Phones.