Dr. Makiya Mahlahal Khalaf, a lecturer in the Department of Ecology in the College of Science, participated in the discussion of a master's thesis for the student Mu'ayyad Ali Hazaa, entitled (Evaluation of the primary productions of phytoplankton and their impact on some environmental factors in the waters of Khor Al-Zubair, southern Iraq), which was organized by the College of Agriculture at the University of Basra in the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources.