今天广州、佛山、惠州、江门、珠海等市部分地区出现了100毫米以上的大暴雨。 I didn't want to get my shoes wet, but it's hard to do so in a rain storm. Guangzhou's rainfall today is about 100 mm. I ended up lecturing barefoot ...
I haven't checked the climatological data, but I think this is probably an anomalous summer for Guangzhou. It rained when we arrived on the 15th of June from Hawaii, and it rained yesterday (June 26th) when I got off the plane from Beijing. I tuned off the a/c when I checked into my room at ...
Qingdao is a lovely place to be in summer, as long as the wind is not from the north. I traveled from Yantai to Qingdao by double-deck bus on the 20th of June, the Father's Day. The ride was nice, though one had no choice but to watch two movies shown on public screens. The travel time was supp ...
中国科学院烟台海岸带研究所成功举办中国科学院海岸带科学研讨会 http://www.yic.ac.cn/xwzx/zhxw/201006/t20100622_2885751.html My favorite invited speaker: 香港大学焦赳赳教授 (the gentleman in the photo below) Where was I? ...
Lecture 1: scientific writing basics Lecture 2: how to write like a pro Speaker: Zuojun Yu, a Honolulu-based freelance English editor 时间:6月28日上午9:30-11:30 地点: 中国科学院南海海洋研究所 , 标本楼6楼 ...
I know my host is very busy, and I had a chance to witness it. On the 21st of June, he introduced one speaker at 8:45 am in one building, and walked me to another building for my lectures from 9-11 am. I was not very well settled, because I had to speak from a raised stage with a microphone muc ...
It was Friday evening, and the World Cup was probably playing on TV. I was very pleased that so many students showed up for my lectures. To encourage interaction, I showed the beautiful note cards I brought from Hawaii. The first six who asked me questions would share the package. I received mo ...
I truly enjoyed the two-day workshop on the coastal zone research. I didn't even have a chance to walk around the hotel or the street outside the hotel until 5:30 pm this afternoon, at the end of our session. Since the dinner would start at 6 pm, we took a 30-min walk to exercise our tired legs af ...
I was so looking forward to this meeting in Yantai, a coastal city north of Qingdao. The flight was delayed by at least 2 hrs at the Baiyun airport in Guangzhou, which was norm according to the passenger next to me who travels to Yantai frequently. The temperature was too warm, a ...