On June 5,the awarding ceremony of 2015 “Klaus Töpfer Environmental Scholarship”,  2014 “Green Seedling Fund” and 2015 “Green Future Scholarship” will be held during the summit of 2015 International Students Conference on Environment and Sustainability. There are more than 60 students from over 30 universities and colleges receiving the three scholarships. They are, namely, 12 S&R teams winning the “Green Seedling Fund”, 13 reports or papers winning 2015 “Green Future Scholarship”. Among them, 5 teams come from Tongji University. 

The project Research on the Sustainable Use of Water Resources in Shanghai, the joint work of Li Yifei, Chen Shuyi and Yang Hongyi, students from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering , won the 2015 “Green Future Scholarship”.

The three students analyzed the current and historical trend of water environment quality, water supply and water draining in Shanghai according to the basic data collected from Shanghai Social Chronicles and Water Resources Communiqué.  In this way, they got a better understanding on the current situation of water use, its pressure source and its favorable factors. Also, they came up with some measures and advice on how to use water in a sustainable way.

According to the research, the major pressure on the sustainable development of water environment in Shanghai comes from water pollution and the great demand. On the one hand, the major risks of water resource security in Shanghai lie in upstream pollution and the low standard (the second national standard) adopted by the sewage treatment factories.

“Shanghai is a typical metropolitan in China, so its experience on water resource management is worth of wide spreading.  We hope our research can help conclude an example so as to contribute to the sustainable development of water resource in China.” said Li Yifei.

Report on Shanghai’s Environment, jointly finished by Ding Yajie, Zhou Shaohua and Sun Xiaofeng, sudents from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji university, won 2015 “Green Future Scholarship”. This team collected relative information and data from the official websites and documents of Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau and Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Station. Moreover, they also paid field trip to Yangpu District Environmental Protection Bureau and Shanghai Meteorological Bureau,  made a systematic and scientific analysis on the water environment, atmosphere environment and on the solid waste treatment, which objectively reflects the environmental situation of shanghai in recent years.

The team members also conducted a questionnaire about the effect that pollution has on citizens’ daily life in Shanghai. Thus they finished the preliminary report on Shanghai’s environmental situation. According to this report, the rubbish production and regional noise is under control while the road noise at night, the coverage of green space and the comfort level should be improved.

First of all, she got an understanding of the development scale, coverage and technologies of new energy cars. Then, she studied the rent model and development situation of EVCARD, and the possibility of replicating this model.  This research laid a statistic foundation for the further development of new energy cars. It also provided an example for other cities to follow.

Control and Prevention Measures and Comparison on Smog in Beijing, Shanghai and Zhengzhou, in the charge of Sun Zhihao, Dong Yanang and Liu Misha, graduates of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, tongji University was granted 2014 “Green Seedling Fund”.

This team studied the air quality data of Beijing, Shanghai and Zhengzhou from 2010 to 2014, analyzing and comparing the concentration of PM2.5, PM10, SO2 and NO2 during the same period.  They found that the differences in industrial development and geography lead to the different composition of smog.

At the same time, the team studied the different types of industries and fuel consumption so as to learn the source of PM2.5 pollution in various regions. They built a CMAQ air quality model to monitor the distribution of emission sources and the chemical composition of pollution. These two factors can illustrate the different effects the key pollution industries and different fuel types have on PM2.5 pollution. Thus, they can, based on the studies they did, provide suggestions on regional emission reduction and on PM2.5 treatment in accordance with different energy structure and emission features.

Liu Mengtan, Li Feng and Sun Xiaofeng, the second year master students of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, jointly finished the project PM2.5 Distribution Features in Chinese Typical City Agglomeration and Its Comparison with Foreign Countries. Their work won them 2014 “Green Seedling Fund”. Team members used time series and wavelet analysis to study the PM2.5 pollution index in Beijing, Shanghai and other typical cities. They collected the detailed data of PM2.5 Nox, NO2, SO2 and O3 concentrations per hour in Beijing during the APEC in 2014, and studied the correlation between these chemical substances.

The team has learnt the current situation and the regular changing pattern of PM2.5 pollution in China. They also found that NO2, NO and SO2 interact with one another, constituting PM2.5 and that O3 has a negative correlation with PM2.5.

“As for the next research, we are going to comparing the PM2.5 concentration among the typical big cities in different times and space as well as the different composition of smog. In this way, we can get a comprehensive evaluation on the policies and measures of controlling PM2.5 at abroad so that we can offer advice for China’s PM2.5 controlling policies.” said Liu Mengtan.

"Green Seedling Fund” and “Green Future Scholarship”, established by Beijing Environment Foundation for Young Talents, are set for undergraduates and graduates who study environmental science or relative majors in china. “Green Seedling Fund” supports students’ S&R projects, encourages students to invent or conduct academic research, especially on interdisciplinary studies, and provides 20,000RMB for every winning project. “Green Future Scholarship” focuses on social practice, encourage students to do analysis on the environmental problems in their hometown or on those that arouse social awareness. It also requires students to evaluate and write reports or papers on the existing regional and national rules and regulations on environment. It offers 10,000RMB for every winning report or paper.

Besides, 10 students specializing in environmental science from 10 universities including Tongji University got the 2015 “Klaus Töpfer Environmental Scholarship”. This scholarship was established in 2007 September by Prof. Klaus Töpfer, the former UN Assistant-Secretary-General, former Executing Director of UNEP and chief professor of IESD. It is the first scholarship for university students studying environmental science, aiming to promoting the environment education in China.