After 4 years working as staff scientist of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO), Lei HAN, will leave the Qingdao office at the end of September.  He will return to the Physical Oceanography Department of the First Institute of Oceanography to continue his career as a Scientist. Lei has provided excellent supports to CLIVAR activities and has played an important role in ICPO, especially during the relocation of the ICPO to China, He will certainly be missed as part of the CLIVAR team. We wish Dr Lei HAN success in the next stage of his career and hope that He will continue to take interest in the activities of CLIVAR and WCRP.