On April 7th, the kick-off meeting of Project 2 under the National Key R&D Program of China “Towards an Air Toxic Management SYstem in China (ATMSYC, 阿特姆赛克: http://www.atmsyc.cn/) took place in Lanzhou University. The event was dedicated to Project 2 (我国有毒有害大气污染物的环境健康风险评估模式构建). Around 15 people in total participated this meeting, including the project director, principal investigators, core research members and invited guests. The advisory board is consisted of Prof. Gong Shanling (龚山陵) of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (中国气象科学研究院), Prof. Niu Wujiang (牛武江) of Gansu Province Environmental Monitoring Center (甘肃省环境监测中心站) and associate Prof. Tian Chongguo (田崇国) of Yantai Institute of Costal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院烟台海岸带研究所). The project members enjoyed a field trip to Yinchuan after this event.
The project director, Prof. Gan introduced the general view of ATMSYC.
Prof. Gao Hong (高宏) presented the Project 2 of ATMSYC.
Time of Q&A.
Group photo in the meeting room, room 1009 of Guanyun Building. 
Group photo in front of Guanyun Building.
The Yellow River Iron Bridge is in the rear. 
In front of the Yellow River Mother Sculpture.
Prof. Gan and his fan girl at Shapotou (沙坡头).
Walking in the Imperial Tombs of Western Xia (西夏王陵).
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Kick-off meeting of ATMSYC Project 4&5 in Guangzhou
On March 23rd, the kick-off meeting of Project 4&5 under the National Key R&D Program of China “Towards an Air Toxic Management SYstem in China (ATMSYC，阿特姆赛克) took place in Ramada Plaza Hotel in Guangzhou. The event was dedicated to Project 4 (重要风险源环境健康风险评估方法与管理体系) and Project 5 (珠江三角洲有毒有害大气污染物风险管控技术平台). A total of 20 people participated this meeting, including the project director, principle investigators, core research members and invited guests. We specially invited Prof. Zhu Fahua (朱法华) of the Guodian Research Institute of Environmental Protection (国电环境保护研究院), Prof. Zhang Jinliang (张金良) of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (中国环境科学研究院), Prof. Ma Jianmin (马建民) of Peking University (北京大学), Prof. Yuan Zibing (袁自冰) of South China University of Technology (华南理工大学), Prof. Chen Yingjun (陈颖军) of Tongji University (同济大学) and Prof. Zhang Yanlin (章炎麟) of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (南京信息工程大学) as the advisory board. This kick-off meeting was hold successfully, which further clarified detailed implementation plan and laid a solid foundation for future development.
The event.
Prof. Gan warmly welcomed all the participants and introduced the project.
Prof. Jun is the PI of Project 5 and gave a presentation on it.
The advisory board.
Group photo.
Gan and his University classmates.
Sampling trip to Sri Lanka in January 2018
On Jan 21_ 31st of 2018, three group members, Prof. Jun Li, Dr. Guangcai Zhong and Dr. Shizhen Zhao visited Dr. Parakrama Karunaratne from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. This designed sampling campaign mainly focuses on the current air pollution and historical environmental change in Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) region, which has been key human health issue for more than two decades in Sri Lanka. Many thanks to the strong support from Dr. Parakrama Karunaratne and his excellent team, 65 passive air samplers were installed in Polonnaruwa region with high, medium and low CKDu prevalence. Meanwhile, six sediment cores were sampled in three Ancient Water Tanks (AWTs). Future collaboration plan was also in-depth discussed. We look forward to productive output from this sampling campaign and more intensive cooperation in future. This work is part of our on-going project, Southern Contaminants Programme (SCP, 2017-2019), which is based on international collaboration and funded by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as part of its Belt & Road Initiatives.
