On 10-12th of Dec, Gan was invited to deliver a lecture on the monitoring and management of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) in the training workshop of “Prevention and control of Hazardous Air Pollutants” in Chengdu, which was hosted by the Ministry of Ecological Environment (MEE). More than 120 staffs working on the atmospheric administration from 31 provinces attended the workshop.
On Dec 5, Gan Zhang attended the 2nd International Symposium on Environmental Health (ISEH) at Shanghai. He gave a key note speech introducing the newly identified up-PCBs in the atmosphere of Ningbo regional atmospheric background station which was done by Shuduan. It was very cold in Shanghai that day! He also chaired a session on ‘Toxicity characterization of emission sources’ with some ‘old’ friends and excellent young scientists, especially Wang Rong of Fudan-U who published his first paper, while he was a undergraduate student in Peking University, coauthored with Gan, who he haven’t met before!
On November 18-23, upon the invitation from Chaipattana Foundation of Thailand, Lucy and Gan attend the International Conference on Environment, Livelihood and Service (ICELS 2018) which took place in CW Tower, Bangkok. Gan gave a keynote speak on ‘Fate of POPs in Asia and nexus’. The two acted as chairs in different sessions. They also visited Pasicha in Chulalongkorn University where they met Professor Wadina Jinsart, head of department of environmental sciences and discussed on future collaboration potentials. The trip ended with a visit to Lam Pak Bia wetland and Amphawa water market.
It was a nice talk.
The talk ended with a Chinese ‘Ci’ I wrote for Thailand 2 years ago. 【玉堂春·暹罗】四方佛地，纤指浓妆骚女。月印湄南，日抹宫玑，十万人家，沃野良田碧。几处唐音陌客羁。 缅甸高棉寮老，相拥何所依？问讯神州，莫道桑榆晚。海上丝绸半岛系。
On the Chao Phraya River （Mae Nam River，湄南河).
Meet Professor Wadina Jinsart, head of department of environmental sciences, Chulalongkorn University.
Meet Professor Kasem Chunko who is the pioneer of environmental science subject in Thailand, and made Lam Pak Bia. He is 86 years old now.
Amphawa water market.
A curry crab dinner.