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Meet with Karu

On June 15th afternoon, we met Dr Karu of Peradeniya University of Sri Lanka, for research updating and a discussion about a new ANSO proposal. Huanfang gave a presentation updating the CKDu ancient water tank (AWT) results, which is fascinating. We want to work on more sediment cores and more analytes to further confirm the story. We then had a discussion on possible topic for the new ANSO proposal which will be submitted in mid July from the Sri Lankan side. Li Jun, Guangcai, Huanfang attended the meeting; Shizhen chaired the meeting. It is wonderful to meet old friend again, although online.

Click to see Dr Karu’s first visit to us.

Click to see how the AWT sediment cores were sampled.

 

Kick-off plan: Air-Omics Squad fish plan(“咸鱼”计划)

During Jan13-19,2022, Shizhen and her team, the Air-Omics Squad(“爱米小分队”)(Lele, Jianchu, Yuwei and Yingjian), started a refreshing work on fish sampling. All fish samples were coming from the South China Sea, the East Sea, the West Sea, the Bohai Sea , the North Bay and Amur River. The flesh and livers of four types of fish( Monkfish, yellow fish, silver pomfret, hairtail and chum salmon) were cut and homogenized, and the mixtures were stored in closed brown glass bottles. This comes to be new content of the Air-Omics Squad project.

Silver pomfret (above) and yellow fish(below).

Shizhen was taking picture with the big monkfish.

Jianchu was dealing the yellow fish.Yingjian was helping Yuwei dealing with the monkfish.

Lele and Yingjian was dealing with the hair fish and monkfish separately.

Do click the video  for special moments!

Closing of the ATMSYC program

On Jan 19 morning,  the final evaluation of the ATMSYC program (2017YFC0212000) took place at XiJiao Hotel (西郊宾馆)in Beijing.  Gan reported the major achievements of the 4 year program in 40 minutes. The assessment panel members highly praised the success of the program. Shizhen and Professor Ma Jianmin of Peking University joined the final report, irrespective of the unpromising  COVID-19 situation in Haidian of Beijing.  It took 4 years before the final evaluation/closure of the ATMSYC. It has been a long journey, with rich experience, lots of challenges, and many happiness and friendship !    (PS: the final score came out to be 89.)

I took this picture on the plane back, to note a leisure after the 4-year ATMSYC journey.