A lecturer at the Marine Science Center at the University of Basra, M.M. Ali Wafiq, participated in a workshop entitled Digestion of water, sediment, plant and animal tissue samples and their preparation for measuring heavy elements, which was held in

The Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources at the College of Agriculture.

His participation during the workshop included carrying out the practical aspect by him and introducing the participants to the digestion methods adopted in preparing water, sediment and plant tissue samples and explaining the steps of collecting samples from the environment and transporting them to the laboratory to be prepared and digestion using acids and methods of adding and preparing them.