标签归档:耿晓飞

Celebration of Prof Zou’s new company

On July 20th, a group of us (Gan, Jun, Shizhen, Guangcai, Xiaofei, Yangzhi, Tang Jiao) went to Zhuhai to join in the opening ceremony of the newly established company, the BoAu(博澳) Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., of which the founder is Professor Zou Shichun (邹世春), a close friend of our group. Lots of old friends attended, including Professors Qi Shihua (祁士华)of CUG-Wuhan, Frank S C Lee(李顺诚) of HKUST-Guangzhou, Chen Yingjun (陈颖军)of FDU, Tian Congguo (田崇国)of YIC-CAS, Hu Limin(胡利民) of OUC etc.  Haoyu acted as the hostess of the ceremony. Gan is honored to be  invited as the chief advisor for future development of the BoAu company. The company will provide the community sophisticated microwave-based digestion and extraction instruments, and other analytical equipment. We were all very happy to witness the opening of the company, and of cause we will cooperate with it from now on!    After the ceremony, we joined  to visit the Tianqin Centre (天琴中心) of SYSU, saw the big telescope, and enjoyed the picturesque landscape on the hill top.

Lifetime buddies (from left: Frank Lee, Zhang Gan, Qi Shihua, Zou Shichun

Xiaofei’s new paper published in ES&T Letters

Xiaofei’s new paper entitled ‘Ship emissions as the largest contributor to coastal atmospheric black carbon at a receptor island in southern China‘ has been accepted for publication in ES&T Letters; and was selected as a supplementary cover story by the editors.

This story is from  the dataset of Xieyang Island (斜阳岛), where we  setup air sampler and sampled for a round year.  Click here to see what happened in 2016 in Xieyang Island. 

Congratulations!

NSFC major program “GeoBBC” – 2023 annual meeting

On the 16 -17th of January 2024, the 2023 annual meeting on “Black Carbon: Geochemical fate and environmental effects (GeoBBC)”, a major program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), was held at the Jiayi International Hotel in Guangzhou.

Li Wei (李薇), Deputy Director of the Department of Earth Sciences of NSFC, Academician Tao Shu (陶澍) from Peking University/Southern University of Science and Technology, Academician Peng Ping’an (彭平安) from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG), Academician Wang Yanxin (王焰新) from China University of Geosciences (CUG), Academician Zhu Tong (朱彤) of Peking University,  Professors Pan Bo (潘波) of Kunming University of Technology, Zhu Dongqiang (朱东强) and Zheng Mei (郑玫) of Peking University, and Chen Yingjun (陈颖军) of Fudan University attended the meeting as seering committee members. Professor/academician He Hongping (何宏平), Director of GIG, Tian Hui (田辉), Director of Science and Technology Department of GIG, and Zhang Gan (张干), chief scientist of the major project, as well as the project leaders and backbones attended the meeting.

The opening ceremony of the conference was chaired by Tian Hui and a welcome speech was delivered by He Hongping. In her speech, Li Wei addressed that the major project was approved in 2021 and started in 2022. The project has been running for two years, with outstanding works, rich achievements and good progress. In addition, Li Wei suggested that the project should further be in line with the national demand and the “dual-carbon” strategy, strengthen target-oriented design, and face mid-term inspections. Zhang Gan gave a general introduction to the project from the aspects of project background, major research progress in 2023, and research plan for 2024. Then Song Jianzhong, Zhang Yanlin and Wang Junjian reported the annual progress of each sub-project, respectively.

The steering committee members fully agreed with the importance of the project. At the same time, constructive suggestions were made in terms of research scopes, innovative breakthroughs and project integrity, followed by in-depth discussions among the project leaders and backbone members. In response to the questions and suggestions raised by the attending experts, the project leaders and key members had a lively exchange and discussion, which helps with the next-year research plan.