分类目录归档:ANSO

Weiru’s six-day travel in Malaysia

From August 3 to 8, Wang Weiru visited the University of Malaya  per invitation by Dr. Bong Chui Wei(黄翠薇). This mobility is an element of the Research Project of the Alliance of International Scientific Organization (ANSO) – Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Air Toxicants (MORATOXA). The main goal of the visit was to promote substantial cooperation between the two sides, as well as to bring the air samples, dust samples and hair samples back to Guangzhou the base of the ANSO project. Dr. Bong and her students fully supported Weiru in the collection of the hair samples. They also demonstrated the high quality atmospheric sampling and preservation in Kuala Lumpur which are dedicated to MORATOXA.  At last, a total of 21 air samples (including one field blank), 36 hair samples and 35 house dust samples were retrieved and brought back. The samples are well stored in the fridge now.

(The first row, from left to right: Dr. Bong, 育莜,Weiru;The second row, from left to right: Walter, Yvaine, Boyu)

Arab Trade Routes exhibited in Muzium Negara

(‘Negara’ is a Malaysian word with the meaning of nation)

The lab work

During the visit, Weiru was also entertained by Dr. Bong’s students to taste the local food, learn about the local languages and visit the zoo.

It was an efficient and enjoyable visit. We all look forward to further progress on this project soon!

Nigar’s 2 papers accepted for publication

Nigar’s paper entitled ‘Screening Legacy and Emerging Organic Pollutants in the Contaminated Soil of Dhaka, Bangladesh ‘ has been accepted for publication in Emerging Contaminants; and another paper ‘Occurrence and fate of current-use pesticides in Chinese forest soils‘ has also been accepted for publication, in Environmental Research.  Congratulations to Nigar and Shizhen!

Meeting on potential collaboration with Brazil

On Feb 28, Shizhen and Gan had a Zoom meeting with Dr Yago Guida of Rio University of Brazil, and Roland Webber who is a distinguished international POPs expert. We talked about the expanding of our ANSO Air-Omic network to Brazil (Rio Janeiro); and we would help Brazil to investigate the HCBD contamination in  three hotspots across the eastern coast of Brazil. This has been a nice meeting come out to be very promising and successful. It was 20:00pm in Guangzhou, 13:00pm in Germany, and 09:00am in Rio Janeiro ! All best to our international reach out.