The Gulf crisis and research

Among the major research activities pursued at KISR are: sea-water desalination and natural water resources, solar and other forms of renewable energy, fisheries and oceanography, biotechnology, arid land agriculture, air pollution and other desert and marine environmental problems of the Gulf region, petroleum and petrochemical technology, urban engineering, computer and microprocessor applications, applied economic and operation research and other practical research. KISR's new facilities, completed in 1986, include some of the most modern multipurpose applied scientific laboratories in the world, a major scientific information centre with over 100,000 scientific books and periodicals supported by automated information systems connected to data centres elsewhere. All present and previous colleagues at KISR and other scientists who visited KISR will be deeply saddened at what has happened to KISR, and will join in calling upon our colleagues throughout the world to voice their opposition to such shocking actions, and hope that the world scientific community will call upon the Iraqi authorities to refrain from such destructive action and to restore KISR properties and facilities.