Dr. Hans Paerl received the International Cooperation Award from the governor of the Jaingsu Province for his work teaching at Hohai University and for the research done on Lake Taihu and other Chinese lake projects. The pictures below  include Dr. Paerl and his colleagues Guangwei Zhu and XuHai (left to right) from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing. Also see Dr. Paerl with the African exchange students at Hohai University, where he was teaching an aquatic ecology course last May.