1992

Cape D’Aguilar (Hok Tsui) Air Monitoring Station was set up to monitor and improve air-quality in Hong Kong through cutting-edge research

The then President of PolyU, Prof. Poon Chung Kwong, in collaboration with NASA, established the research station within CSE in 1992. The PolyU group since has conducted measurements of trace gases and pollutants in the atmosphere at the Hok Tsui research station, situated at the southeastern corner of Hong Kong Island. This was the first long-term background air monitoring station to be established in southern China. It had the aim of measuring and understanding the long distance regional flows of pollutants in the atmosphere. Since 1994, station leadership has been provided by Prof. Wang Tao and such is the reputation of the work at the station that he has lead several major Mainland China air pollution study campaigns at the invitation of the Chinese authorities.