On March 1st, Gan and Shizhen attended the Sixth Environmental Analytical Chemistry Symposium in Wuxi. During their visit, they also had the opportunity to meet with Prof. Zhenyu Wang at the School of Environment & Ecology, Jiangnan University. They toured the advanced laboratory and engaged with Prof. Wang’s research group. The visit was further enriched by spending time in Wuxi with Prof. Zou and Mr. Zhang. Our sincere thanks to Prof. Wang’s group for their warm hospitality.
On December 11, several GeoBBCcore members including Zhang Yanlin of NUIST, Wang Junjian of SUSTECH, Song Jianzhong, Zhao Shizhen, Lu Yazhou and Zhang Gan of GIG attended the Mid-term assessment event (基金委地学重大项目中期评估） which, organized by NSFC, was held in XiJiao Hotel （西郊宾馆) at Beijing. Gan reported the overall progress and achievement of the GeoBBC program (15 minutes), followed by 4 project reports delivered by Song Jianzhong, Zhang Yanlin, Wang Junjian and Zhang Gan, respectively, each 5 minutes. Yazhou prepared and brought all financial things, and communicated with the financial audit team in the venue. Yangzhi helped in preparing and collecting all relevant stuffs for the Mid-term assessment, and all team members had a very busy fortnight, preparing for the assessment event. There were six NSFC ultra programmes being assessed by 15 experts assigned by NSFC. The GeoBBC program was evaluated to be ‘Super Excellent’ (特优), which denotes a milestone and great achievements of our GeoBBC.
On Dec 9th, Shizhen and Gan attended the Symposium on New Pollutants (新污染物研究与治理大会) which was organized by China Association of Environmental Sciences (中国环境科学学会）and Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (中国环境科学研究院）in Beijing. Gan gave two invited talks, one on ‘Regional transport and source-sink processes of new pollutants’ , one on ‘An environmental atmospheric science perspective on new pollutans in the atmosphere’. Shizhen gave a talk on MNPs and TWPs in the urban atmosphere. All the three talks were well received by the audiences who showed great interest in our thinkings and findings. After the symposium, we had chance to have dinner with Yi Xin (怡欣） and Lin Tian （林田） who were around.
