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William Arko visit the group

William visited the group on Jan 3-5. William met us at a workshop organized by Lancaster University, in Accra, Ghana in last March. He then decided to pursue his PhD degree in our group. William has been a technical officer in the Water Research Institute (WRI) of Commonwealth Science and Industry Research (CSIR) of Ghana (加纳). He was successfully enrolled in China Geosciences University at Wuhan, with the help from Professor Qi Shihua(祁士华). He will spend his first year in Wuhan for classes, then join us in Guangzhou for research. On this visit, he gave a talk introducing himself on group meeting on Jan 4th. In the meantime, we had time to gather at night of the 3rd for a beer on the waterfront of the Pearl River, and the 4th at Hutaoli (胡桃里)pub. Willaim will go back to Ghana for sampling in the coming winter holiday.

chemicals risk workshop at Shenyang

On August 26-29, Shizhen, Yingjian, Jin Biao and Gan attended the annual workshop on chemical risk management in Shenyang. The serial annual workshop was actually an event of the professional committee of chemical pollution and risk management (化学品环境风险防控专业委员会) affiliated to China Environment Science Association (中国环境科学学会). Jin Biao was invited to give a keynote speech on ‘Persistent Mobile Toxics in the environment’, and  Gan was invited to give a keynote talk on ‘HAPs in the urban environment of China’  and helped to chair the Emerging Environment session of the workshop. This is part of activities to promote the ATMSYC project achievements. Shizhen has been helping with the management and promotion of ATMSYC and Yingjian is going to work on it for his MSc study. Professor Yu Zhiqiang (于志强) of our lab also attended as an invited speaker. We were very happy to meet Professors Yu Yang (于洋)of MEE Centre for Solid Waste and Chemical Management, and professor Mei Surong(梅素容) who worked along with us on ATMSYC.  At the 27th night we were able to have dinner with Yishan’s parents-Gan and Yishan’s father were university classmates! Of cause we enjoyed NE China cuisines and Lu-Chuan. On the 28th afternoon, we spared a half day and paid a short visit to the famous Shenyang Forbidden City (沈阳故宫). The trip ended with a performance of Er-Ren-Zhuan(二人转) in the Dong-Bei-QIng theater (东北情大剧院). 

The mini-team.

Another talk, poor guy.

Jin Biao talked about PMOCs, which has drawn attention the MEE authority.

Professor Mei Surong contributed to ATMSYC promotion.

Professor Yu Zhiqiang contributed to ATMSYC promotion.

Yu Yang was one of the guys behind the workshop.

Mini-cheers.

Classmates from 1983 to 1987.

Something strong.

Typically Northeastern China.

     

Shenyang Forbidden City.

Goldschmidt 2019 at Barcelona

On 17th -24th Aug, the famous Goldschmidt conference took place in Barcelona, Spain. Luckily we got two abstracts accepted this year, and contributed one oral presentation and one flash talk. It was said that about 7000 people registered for the conference. It was the first Goldschmidt for Wenwen and she gave an excellent talk on source interpretation of nitrosamine at the Pearl River Delta. For the old man, Biao, it was his 6th Goldschmidt conference and 4th oral presentation at the same conference. He gave a talk about stable carbon isotope fractionation associated with triclosan’s photodegradation, and he met his good old friends from the CSIA community in the session. During one lunch break, we visited Prof. Gan’s good friend, Prof. Joan Grimalt (Academician, Spanish Council of Scientific Research, CSIC). Together with our great friend, Eva,  she showed us the lab and invited us for a wonderful lunch under a tree. That was an amazing day!

In the spare time, the “old town” tour organized by Pere was very impressive, and the tour ended with a long and nice walk along the famous street La Rambala (流浪者大街). The church Sagrada Familia(圣家堂)was still under construction, and Biao was very happy to see the new part of the church built since 2014. That was totally a nice week at BCN, mixed with science, nice weather, city, culture and food. I guess Wenwen can NOT agree more. 😊 

Flash talk at Goldschmidt 2019 (Wenwen).

Presentation at Goldschmidt 2019 (Biao).

Lab tour with Prof. Grimalt.

Pere’s town tour at Cataluna Plaza.

The famous Sagrada Familia.