Oct 16-17th, several group members attended the 6th International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Health organized by Jinan University. The event took place in the Sunshine Hotel (阳光酒店) not far away from the institute. Zhang Gan and Shizhen gave presentations on the conference, respectively. Lele, Yingjian, Yuwei and Jianchu joined; this maybe their first international conference they attended.
On September 27-29, a group of us (Li Jun, Shizhen and Gan) paid anotrher visit to Ningbo Atmospheric Environment Observatory (NAEO) first setup by the group from 2008. Chen Yingjun, from Shanghai, and Zhang Yanlin, form Nanjing, came to meet with us for a dinner together in Ningbo. The NAEO was first setup by Zhang Yanlin, and then built by Liu Xiang and Li Jun. It has been taken care of by the ‘Shen brothers’ who have been very professional to keep the station running for 12 years! The facility needs another round of refurbishing. Besides, we also visited the famous Tiyige (天一阁）in the city, which is an ancient library, amazing.
On Dec 14-20, I paid short visits to Lancaster-U and Stockholm-U, respectively. I stayed in Lancaster on Dec 14-17, attended the PhD viva of Wang Xinzi as the external examiner. The viva last for almost 3 hrs and Xinzi made it successfully. For celebration both for Xinzi and the coming Christmas, we had a small gathering in the Water Witch at the night, most people were from Hao’s group.
I stayed in Lancaster House Hotel, hence had opportunity to walk around the familiar campus several times. It remains almost the same as 7 years ago when last time I visited with my daughter. Though, a new building for management school has been under construction and shaped out. I also visited the village house-Summer House- of Kevin and Hao, which is an old house of more than 200 years. It is very nice. Sometimes I was drinking with Kevin and talking about life and students.
I moved to Stockholm-U on Dec 18th, where I was able to meet Buqing （徐步青）and Caiqing （闫才青） who are working there as visiting PhD student and postdoctor, respectively. We three had a exotic dinner in a local market restaurant. On the next day I gave a talk on ‘Fate of POPs in China and nexus’, which had been streaming across the world in the Stockholm circuit. I had exiting moment meeting with Claudia, who was an office mate of mine in 2004 in Lancaster and had just moved to her new job as a technician in Stockholm-U!
At night, Orjan led us to a small local restaurant in the old town of Stockholm (Gamla Stan) . We had reindeer meat there. It happened to be almost 冬至 when it has the longest night in Stockholm.
It is always great and enjoyable to meet friends and familiar people, other than scenery, here and there around the Little World.
The COSTA Coffee is ‘new’ on campus, for me. 
Familiar Alexandra Square and surrounds.
The Lancaster House Hotel.
Water Witch pub.
First visit to Orjan.
Talks on POPs in Stockholm 🙂
A local restaurant in Gamla Stan (Swedish: the old town).