On May 21, Professor Haidelore Fiedler  (Heidi) of Orebro University, Sweden, visited SKLOG. Heidi is also a distinguished professor in Tsinghua University associated with Prof  Yu Gang’s group. She worked for more than 15 years in UNEP/chemicals as a project officer and had contributed greatly to the Stockholm Convention in particular on developing the toolkit for dioxin inventory and the global monitoring programme of POPs (GMP). Heidi gave a talk entitled ‘Implementation of POPs convention with emphasis on chemical analysis’.  Heidi is a Germany in origin, and was exited to talk with Jin Biao in Germany. She is happy to contribute to our next step development in the MSR on GMP.

Heidi’s first visit to SKLOG.

Two dioxin experts.

Eva from Jinan University accompanied Heidi.

Heidi’s enthusiastic with POPs monitoring.

A small gift (the SKLOG mug). 

On May 7-18, Ruiling and Liu Xin visited Hanoi for wastewater sampling under assistance of Tu Binh Minh’s group from VNU University of Science. During their stay, 5 types of DGTs were deployed and 24 h composite samples were collected at the inlet of Yen So WWTP for consecutive 7 days. They also collected composite water samples in Kim Nguu cannal and outlet of the plant. All the water samples were extracted immediately after collection every day. The sampling achieved its goals as expected.

Prof Tu Binh Minh is SCP partner in Hanoi, Vietnam. His group has interacted with us frequently since last September. Currently, we’ve successfully conducted PAS and WWTP sampling campaigns in Hanoi as we discussed in first meeting. We hope our collaborative relationship can be very long and fruitful.