The professor doctor Mohammed A. Al-Shikhli gave a lecture entitled (An international field study of depleted uranium pollution in central and southern Iraq after 2003)) as a part of cultural season of ERC/ UOT, on Thursday, 3/1/2019, The lecture presented the results of the comprehensive field survey of the central and southern areas of Iraq from northern Baghdad to Umm Qasr south of Basra province to investigate the radiation background of areas exposed to direct bombing with depleted uranium armor-piercing missiles / The study, which continued to 2012 refers to the presence of high active radiation more than 10% of the safe rate especially in direct bombing site, as well as  significant increase in the incidence of leukemia and congenital malformations of residents around the affected areas. Finally  The researcher recommended to put radiological map for Iraq radiological background, treat sites with high radiation activity, especially those exposed to direct hits by stabilizing soils with chelating chemicals to reduce the movement of contaminated sands with the prevailing wind direction, measure the pollution of agricultural crops in pre-marketed areas for local consumption, monitor the rise in incidence rates with various cancers, deformed births and providing medical aid to the affected families by treating their members out of Iraq.

As part of the activities of the accreditation committee at the Environmental Research Center, Prof. Dr. Saadi Mohammed Zaher gave a lecture entitled "Value of pH." The lecture included the principles of measuring pH in standard specifications and methods of measurement using multiple devices.

The Environment Research Center in cooperation with Mustansiriya University / Faculty of Engineering held a workshop for students of the third phase of the branch / Environmental Water Systems on Sunday 23/12/2018 in the presence of teachers from their department. The workshop included a brief introduction to the center and laboratories, physical and chemical tests, definition of field equipment, The speed of the current and the experience of measuring the turbidity and the experience of measuring Total Hardness and the experience of measuring the pH, the workshop was to the laboratories of the Department of Environmental Pollution (soil and water laboratory and laboratory analysis automated) and under the supervision of the officials and testers of the following labs:

 * Rana Riad Khalil
 * Athmaar Abdul Majeed
 * Ahmed Alwan
 * Ali Nasser Ali

The Fourth International Scientific Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development was organized by the Center for Environmental Research at the University of Technology and the Arab Union for Sustainable Development and the Environment. The conference was attended by more than 120 researchers and researchers from various Iraqi governmental and private universities, in addition to the participation of many scientific and academic figures from the Arab Union and the Egyptian universities. At the Intercontinental Hotel City Star Cairo and in the presence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in the Arab Republic of Egypt Mr. Habib Al-Sadr and Professor Dr. Amin Dway Thamer, President of the University of Technology.

The opening session included a lecture by Dr. Bahram Khader from Salahuddin University and Prof. Najah Aboud Hussain from Basra University.

The first day included a workshop on the integrated environmental management of water resources in Iraq, in which Dr. Hussein Al-Atafi, Secretary General of the Arab Water Council, and former Minister of Water Resources in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Dr. Ali Abdul-Zahra Al-Lami participated.