Recently, Gansu Provincial Academic Degree Committee and Gansu Provincial Department of Education announced the results of the selection of excellent doctoral and master's degree theses in Gansu Province for the academic year of 2022-2023, and a total of 41 excellent doctoral degree theses and 84 excellent master's degree theses were selected. Among them, the dissertation Spatial and temporal variation of dust sources on the Loess Plateau revealed by multi index source analysis by Zhang Haobo, a member of our team, was awarded as the excellent doctoral dissertation, and the supervisor was Nie Junsheng.