标签归档：张干

atmsyc、潭影录

NCEC 2019

On Aug 15-18, The 2019 National  Conference of Environmental Chemistry was held in Tianjin, organized by Nankai University as part of the celebration of the University’s 100 anniversary. It was a huge conference with about 8,000 attendants.  Gan gave two keynote talks on two sessions, respectively. The titles of the talks were ‘Source-sink processes of POPs in Asia’ (POPs session) and ‘POPs in the urban atmosphere of China’ (Emerging Contaminants session). Gan was very happy to meet Prof Mei Surong (梅素容）of Central China University of S&T (华中科技大学同济医学院）who is a member of the ATMSYC project. he was also happy to see a PhD student,  Gong Xinying（龚新颖）, of whom Zhao Zhen was one of the supervisors, in Nankai University.  Former group members, Zhao Zhen, Zhang Yanlin etc also attended the Conference. Of course I met Kevin and Zhang Hao, again, and Kevin and I had an afternoon chat with coffee followed by drinks with Professor Liu Congqiang of Tainjin-U. Kevin was also invited to gave a keynote talk on the POPs session.  And it was amazing that his and my talk fit extremely well and were highly supplementary with each other on the topic of global fate of POPs, although we did not know that both of us will be attending and same session ! Buddy no doubt!

With Professor Mei Surong, a member of the ATMSYC team.

Gong Xinying of Nankai-U who worked with Zhao Zhen.

Giving talks, and chairing the EC session.

Kevin was also invited to gave a keynote talk on the POPs session. I was happy to Chair part of the POP session.

潭影录

The 11th ISEG

On August 8-10, a group of us including Liu Xin, Zhang Ruiling, Zhang Gan, Chen Wenwen, Mahdi and Dilanka attended the 11th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry (ISEG) in Peking Universe. The symposium was organized by Professors Tao Shu（陶澍） and Zhu Dongqiang（朱东强）.  Gan was invited to give a keynote speech entitled ‘Development and Applications of Radiocarbon Analysis Techniques for Tracking Atmospheric Organic Species in China’. The talk promoted our works on radiocarbon analysis of BC/BrC/Di-acids/IVOC (naphthalene), and demonstrated radiocarbon analysis as a powerful tool in tracing the sources of atmospheric organics.   Other group members all gave poster presentations, a bunch of ‘waters’! On the eve of the opening ceremony day, we are able to gather in a restaurant  ‘Friday’  for a drink.

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Visiting the Pearl River Council

On July 26, a group of us, Jin Biao, Chen Wenwen, Liu Xin and I paid a half day visit to the Pearl River Council（珠江水利委员会）. We were welcome by Ms Zhang Guangyan who is the head of the research office of the Council.  Liu Xin gave a talk on wastewater based epidemiology showing some nice result from Guangzhou, Sri Lanka and Iran. Chen Wenwen reported her recent advance of her work on N-nitrosamines in the Pearl River. Jin Biao interpreted the concept of persistent and mobile organic compounds (PMOCs) to the audience who are from various departments of the Council and its affiliated organizations. The talks were followed by a detailed discussion and exchange of information in particular future activities and reform in the Council including the establishment of   a research institute on environment and the hand-over of groundwater management from geological survey to the Council.  Lots of collaboration opportunities!