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The
highlights of 1999:
We co-organised 22 events including conferences, technical
meetings and visits with our overseas counterparts and
the local/international environmental associations,
which attracted some 800 local and overseas professionals
Members of our staff published in professional journals
or presented at conferences or workshops a total of
52 papers on various environmental topics
We collaborated with the University of Hong Kong, the
City University of Hong Kong and the Agriculture, Fisheries
and Conservation Department in conducting research on
the dynamics of algal blooms and red tides in sub-tropical
coastal waters through monitoring, modelling and prediction.
We also collaborated with the Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology to evaluate the possible use of
a local marine organism to help determine the toxicity
of sediment
We continued to serve on the fund-vetting committees
of the Innovation and Technology Fund and the Environment
and Conservation Fund to assist in the selection of
worthwhile educational and research projects in the
environmental fields
Our professional staff met our target of attending on
average seven days of training in 1999. About 35% of
these training sessions were on environmental subjects
with others on management, safety, languages and computers.
Our technical staff recorded an average of 6.5 days
of training with more than 20% on environmental subjects
during the same year
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