Liu Xin is easily finishing her PhD study with very likely 2 new publications, one of which is just online in Environ Geochem Health, entitled ‘Brominated flame retardants and dechlorane plus on a remote high mountain of the eastern Tibetan Plateau: implications for regional sources and environmental behaviors’.
On April 8, I was invited by Professor Qi Shihua (祁士华) of CUG Wuhan to attend a signing ceremony for education cooperation between CUG and CAS. I had the chance to meet Dilanka and previous group member Cheng Hairong (成海容) on the campus of CUG. Dilanka studies in CUG for her first year of MsC. She goes well with her study in CUG. Hairong has been going well with her teaching and research in WHU. It was a very nice day in the morning, followed by raining in the afternoon and at night.
Dilanka obtained excellent scores with most of her subjects. (Picture: Ma Yueliang)
Who are the teachers, and who the students. (Picture: Ma Yueliang)
Raining drops on the road. (Picture: G Zhang)
On March 29, we took a challenging and enjoyable hiking of which the destination is the A-Po-Liu Village （阿婆六村）in Conghua of Guangzhou. A-Po-Liu is the highest altitude village of Guangzhou. We stayed one night at Xitou Town （溪头）, of course had some alcohol. On March 30, we visited the source valley of Liuxi River which is the drinking source water of Guangzhou. The group came back to the institute in the evening, after the memorable 2-day field trip in the Spring. The overall hiking distance maybe up to 17 km.
The weather: 山色崆濛雨亦奇。
We almost got lost at the beginning.
Through the bamboo forest.
The road was extremely muddy at the very beginning.
Young faces.
In the square of A Po Liu.
Success after a ca 13.5 km hiking.
柴禾妞.
Alcohol 海之蓝。
Beers as the nexus.
Beers and faces.
The countryside family hotel we stayed for one night.
Surrounded by hills and mountains.
Upstream expenditure.
Got drunk last night.
A very high-level smile of “Mr Ma”, featured by Hongxing .
The moment.
As cheerful as young.