Junwen’s new paper ‘Substantial Reductions in Black Carbon from both Fossil Fuels and Biomass Burning during China’s Clean Air Action‘ has been accepted for publication in PNAS. It is a great success in the application of our AMS facility and OC/EC radiocarbon measurement system. Professor Yu Jianzhen (郁建珍) of Hong Kong University of Science & Technology collected the precious 12-year samples; Jiang Fan (姜帆) did most of the radiocarbon analysis in the AMS lab and contributed to the writings. Congratulations!
On July 20th, a group of us (Gan, Jun, Shizhen, Guangcai, Xiaofei, Yangzhi, Tang Jiao) went to Zhuhai to join in the opening ceremony of the newly established company, the BoAu（博澳） Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., of which the founder is Professor Zou Shichun （邹世春）, a close friend of our group. Lots of old friends attended, including Professors Qi Shihua （祁士华）of CUG-Wuhan, Frank S C Lee（李顺诚） of HKUST-Guangzhou, Chen Yingjun （陈颖军）of FDU, Tian Congguo （田崇国）of YIC-CAS, Hu Limin（胡利民） of OUC etc. Haoyu acted as the hostess of the ceremony. Gan is honored to be invited as the chief advisor for future development of the BoAu company. The company will provide the community sophisticated microwave-based digestion and extraction instruments, and other analytical equipment. We were all very happy to witness the opening of the company, and of cause we will cooperate with it from now on! After the ceremony, we joined to visit the Tianqin Centre (天琴中心) of SYSU, saw the big telescope, and enjoyed the picturesque landscape on the hill top.
Lifetime buddies (from left: Frank Lee, Zhang Gan, Qi Shihua, Zou Shichun
On August 11-13, Shizhen, Gan, Junwen met Xu Yue in Guiyang on the 8th Conference on Environmental Geochemistry. It was really nice to see Xu Yue after seemingly a long time. Meanwhile we met many familiar faces in the circuit. Gan gave an oral presentation on radiocarbon in the atmosphere. After the conference, Xu Yue arranged a casual trip to the upper reach of Wujiang River (乌江源), which is very memorable.
