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.
On July 12, I was invited to visit Nanjing University of Information Technology and give a class on a summer school (SS) organized by Zhang Yanlin (章炎麟). I gave a class entitled ‘POPs: from Chemistry to Geochemistry’. During the 2 days in NUIT I met professors Tao Shu (陶澍), Liu Congqiang (刘丛强), Li Fangbai（李芳柏) etc who were also ‘teacher’ of the SS. We drank a lot and the trip was enjoyable thanks to Yanlin and his colleagues’ good organization. I also had a view on Yanlin and Cao Fang (曹芳)’s aerosol isotope lab which is well equipped and managed. I came to know that there were more than 20 research students working in his group, while realizing that I am ‘grand-teacher’. Attended the SS are also students from 俊文’s group (JNU) and 瑞杰’s group (GXU).
The SS.
More than 140 students joined the SS.
Do my job.
‘Grand-teacher’ in white hairs. Students from Yanlin’s and Junwen’s group.
With students from Ruijie’s group.
System for N isotope analysis with a Mat 253+ MS and a Gas- Bench
Commercial TD (thermo-desorption) inlet system for direct aerosol organic composition analysis.
On morning Dec 19, Junwen reported his PDRA work to a group of panel professors. This comes to the closing of his postdoctorate in the group. He secured an associate professor position in Jinan University, however, he is leaving for Sweden, to work with Örjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University, as a Marie Curie Fellow and VINNMER Fellow funded by the Sweden’s Innovation Agency. Congratulations!
