On July 7th afternoon, after the academic committee member meeting at CityU of Hong Kong, I paid a short visit to PolyU to meet many old friends there. I was very happy to know that Professor Guo Hai 郭海, our long-time collaborator and buddy, has been promoted to be Chair Professor, thus he moved to a bigger office. A great move and nice and tidy office!
On July 4th, the group had a party dinner together farewelling Jabir Hussain Syed. Jabir completed his PIFI fellowship as a visiting scientist and is going back to Pakistan. Before that, Jabir delivered a talk introducing the brick kilns emission in South Asia as a component for finishing his PIFI study, and he received the PIFI certificate form CAS, which was presented by Gan. Attended in the gathering was also Liu Boyu from University of Malaya who visited us for a month analyzing FFAS in samples collected from major rivers and the western coast of Malaysian peninsula, and is leaving. In the meantime, Yago Guida from Brazil joined the group also as a PIFI fellow. We had Sichaun food for the dinner. It has been a pleasure for us to have Jabir and Boyu with us, and Yago to join us!
On January 11-12, Shizhen and Gan went to Beibu Gulf University (北部湾大学）in Qinzhou (钦州) for the annual meeting of the Field Station of Pinglu Canal (平陆运河河口海湾生态系统野外科学观测研究站), amid which Zhizhen was able to see Xuelin（雪琳) and Hangyi(航毅) who were working in the lab of the university for pretreatment of our water samples collected from the coast of Beibu Bay. Both of them had been working very hard in the lab and Hanyi also on the sampling boat. We met as well Professors Wang Yinghui (王英辉) of Guangxi University and Tang Jianhui (唐朝辉)of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone CAS, and jointly visited the Centaury Project of Pinglu Canal (平陆运河). It is very excited for us to meet occasionally there!
