Dr Rose Alani and PhD student Olumide visited the group from Dec 2 to 16, partly attended the MSR training course but stay after it in the laboratory to work on their samples from Lagos. Good luck to them, and we hope the collaboration with Lagos University could go on successfully.
On October 21-25, Liu Xin, Shizhen and Zhang Gan payed a fruitful visit to University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaysia Terrengganu (UMT). In Terengganu, I gave a talk entitled ‘Fate of POPs in marine environment: from coastal to the open sea’, then we had a technical discussion with Dr Le Quang Dung (黎光勇) in UMT on the development of SCP in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam. We also had time slots for short visits to the beautiful sand beach, the crystal mosque, as well as the China Town in Terrengganu. In Kuala Lampur, we were very happy to meet our long time collaborator/friends, Dr Bon Chui Wei (黄翠薇）and Professor Pauzi Zakaria. We agreed to upgrade the MoU between GIG and UM. It cannot be neglected as an important success that I received from Chui Wei a his-beloved new-version UM mug.
Dr Le (黎）is originated from Vietnam. He obtained his PhD in Tokyo University. We will work together on environmental health in Ho Chi Mihn City of Vietnam.
Let us talk about POPs in marine environment.
Technical discussion with Dr Le.
Happy time by the beautiful sand beach. Behind us is the western South China Sea. Yin (于佩) is a Malaysian Chinese girl who looked after us for hotel and mobility.
China Town in Terrengganu.
The Crystal mosque is also a famous tourist attraction.
Technical meeting in IOES of UM on joint research activities.
Official gift presented by Professor Pauzi. He visited our group for one and a half month early this year.
Just cannot refuse from receiving my favorite gift, of course from 翠薇.
As a gift to the National Day, Haoyu published an important paper in ES&T entitled ‘Using Polyurethane Foam-Based Passive Air Sampling Technique to Monitor Monosaccharides at a Regional Scale’. This is her first ES&T paper. Congratulations!
To be No 1! I am sure that it will be a benchmark of regional monitoring of biomass burning across the earth planet.
It was a team work . Of the study, Haoyu did the experiment, wrote the manuscript; Guangcai supervised the chemical analysis; Tian Congguo of YIC coded the computer program/model for counting fire spots within 50 km of each sampling point, based on MODIS fire products; Yu Zhiqiang helped in managing the field sampling campaign; Li Jun joined discussions and managed the field sampling; Jiaqi, Hongxin, Shizhen helped with the experiment and joined the discussions; Lidia Morawska of QUT joined the discussion and polished the text. Gan Zhang inspired and designed the study.
