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NSFC Major Program “GeoBBC” – 2022 Annual Meeting

In April 21 to 23, 2023, the 2022 annual meeting of NSFC major program ‘Geochemical Behaviours and Environmental Effect of Black Carbon (BC) Substances (GeoBBC)’ took place in Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences. The annual meeting was organized by GIG,  in a hybrid form of online and on-site. Wei Li (李薇), Director of the Second Division of Earth Science Department of the NSFC, attended the meeting. Specially invited guests included were Profs Shu Tao (陶澍) of Peking University/Southern University of Science and Technology, Ping’an Peng (彭平安) of GIG, Yanxin Wang (王焰新) of China University of Geosciences, Tong Zhu (朱彤) of Peking University,  Fengchang Wu (吴丰昌) of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and Profs Junyu Zheng (郑君瑜) of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Bo Pan (潘波) of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Dongqiang Zhu (朱东强) of Peking University, Mei Zheng (郑玫) of Peking University and Yingjun Chen (陈颖军) of Fudan University. Hongping He (何宏平), Director of GIG, Hui Tian (田辉), Director of Science and Technology Department of GIG, Gan Zhang (张干), chief scientist of the major project, as well as the key members of the project attended the conference.

Hui Tian presided over the opening ceremony of the conference. Hongping He delivered a welcome speech and issued appointment letters to the members of the Scientific Steering Committee of the project. Wei Li introduced that the GeoBBC major program meets both the major national needs and scientific frontier; and has been recognized by the entire expert team during the bidding processes. Gan Zhang made an overall introduction to the project covering the background, key scientific problems, research objectives, expected achievements and main research progress in the year of 2022. Subsequently, Jianzhong Song, Yanlin Zhang, Junjian Wang and Guangcai Zhong introduced the annual progress report of the four sub-projects, respectively. The steering committee members gave full affirmation to the project; and put forward professional and constructive suggestions on the research regions, research contents, key tools, project outcome and the integrity of the GeoBBC. The meeting is timely for further development of the GeoBBC.

A group picture

Snapshots of the meeting

Örjan Gustafsson and family visited Guangzhou

On October 28 to 31, Örjan Gustafsson visited the group. This is his second visit in the year of 2018. His family came along with him. Orjan had intensive discussions with Gan, Guangcai, Xiaofei, Yi Xin and Buqing. The visit push our collaboration much forward and made it more clearly. The advance of BPCA-based dual-carbon methodology and aerosol di-acids dual-carbon isotope methodology were highly appraised by Orjan. He also discussed with Junwen on the writing of the Malaysian Bachok Station radiocarbon paper. We went to Baiyun Mountain with his family for a nice excursion. And the kids had great first impression of Guangzhou, from the splendid Pearl River water front, to delicate vegetarian food in the ShiFangYuan restaurant. Anna, the little lovely beauty received a special gift from Gan and Liu Xin, which is a family portrait of her family in the PR waterfront. Wonderful memory.

A ‘radiocarbon’ lunch.

Baiyun Mountain.

Happy family.

Vegetarian food.

A specially prepared gift to the little lady.