Based on the Ministry’s approach to achieving sustainable development goals in Iraqi universities, the Director of the Environmental Research Center, Professor Dr. Zainab Bahaa Muhammad, participated with a group of professors in creating two departments in the Upper Euphrates Basin Development Center - Anbar University.
The first is the Department of Environment and Pollution and the second is the Department of Meteorology and Climate.
The name of the center was changed to (Upper Euphrates Center for Sustainable Development Research).

Within the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center, Assistant Lecturer Asmaa Nafi Badri gave a Lecture entitled (Molecular and quantitative genetic evaluation of pure introduced lines of cherry tomato under protected cultivation conditions)

It touched on a molecular genetic study of the genetic content of eight pure lines of cherry tomato: (1) LA3002 (2) LA2838A (3) LA0797 (4) LA4355 (5) LA7371 (6) LA3534 (7) LA3535 (8) LA3530 Brought from the center Genetic sources of tomato at the University of California - Davis, USA, CM Rick Tomato Genetics Center (TGRC), University of California in Davis, USA, using 15 primers (10 of the internal sequence type (ISSR) and 5 of which are type of simple tandem sequences (SSR) in order to establish its genetic fingerprint. In light of their results, the degree of genetic distance between them was determined, and in the second stage, the pure lines of cherry tomato were included in a comparison experiment among them based on the behavior of their field characteristics and were planted according to a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replicates.

As part of the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center, assistant lecturer Iman Karim Mutashar gave a lecture entitled (Measurements of some cellular movements and lipid levels in patients with hypothyroidism and their relationship to the functions of thyroid hormones in clinical and subclinical cases)

 The effect of some immune parameters on the pathology of clinical and subclinical hypothyroidism. These immune parameters include white blood cells (12-17-33). This study also included some biochemical parameters to demonstrate the effect of thyroid function disorder on fat metabolism. This study included (47) Patients with clinical hypothyroidism and (12) patients with subclinical hypothyroidism, which were collected from the Endocrinology and Diabetes Center, Al-Kindi Hospital in Baghdad. The study also included (23) healthy individuals in the period between March 2017 and September 2017.

Within the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center, Assistant Lecturer Ban Samari Attia gave a lecture entitled (Biodegradation of Crude Oil Using Two Types of Blue-Green Algae Anabaena variabilis and Oscillatoriaamoena)

 The lecture touched on the process of biodegradation of crude oil using types of cyanobacteria that were isolated from the Doura refinery. Polluted water samples were collected from the biological treatment unit and the final disposal unit to the Tigris River, which were then analyzed to estimate a number of physical and chemical parameters. These variables were used to determine the characteristics of the Daura Refinery waste, as it will be thrown into the Tigris River after treatment. The results indicated that the values ​​of some variables were outside the limits permitted by the Iraqi environmental determinants, while the results of the values ​​of other variables, such as temperature, biological oxygen requirement, and the pH function, were Within permissible limits.

Within the activities of the cultural season of the Environmental Research Center, Assistant Lecturer Nawras Kazem Rasan gave a lecture entitled (Molecular diagnosis of isolates of the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus using RAPD and ISSR indicators)
The lecture aimed to isolate and diagnose the fungus A. fumigatus from various sources and to study the genetic variations between these isolates using indicators of random polymorphic DNA interaction (RAPD) and simple sequence repeat (ISSR) indicators. 20 samples of A. fumigatus were collected from different sources and were diagnosed based on... Characteristics of external appearance.