Research Assistant (1984/85) in ETMA Programme on environmental degradation in Tegali district, Nuba Mountains Sudan (University of Khartoum and Clark University USA).
Participant and organiser in the ETMA seminars at Umm Kaddada, Sudan 1985.
Participant and organiser in the Red Sea Area Programme (RESAP) (university of Khartoum and University of Bergen Norway) Annual workshops, Sudan 1990-1991.
Participated in the Africa Days Seminar 19-22 May-1992, The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden.
Participated in „GIS and remote sensing course‟, Remote Sensing and GIS laboratory, Department of Physical Geography Lund University, October 1992 to January 1993.
Participated in the „Advanced School in spatial data handling‟ for post doctoral and doctoral research students, Department of Computer science, University of Rome 20-25 February 1994, Venice, Italy.
Participated in the „Radar remote sensing application‟ a workshop for doctoral students, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 25-28 April 1994.
Participated in the “Doktrandkurs I praktisk GIS & Bildbehandling” Remote Sensing & GIS Lab, Dept. of Physical Geography, Lund University, December 1995.
Participated in the Ph.D. course on “Natural resource management in Sub-Saharan agriculture –Research methodologies and approaches”, Department of Geography,University of Copenhagen May 1996.
Participated in the Ph.D. “Course on advanced statistics in hydrometeorology and water resources”, Dept. of Water resources Engineering, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH)-Lund University, June 1996.
Presented a seminar on “Environmental research in Africa”, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen Norway, April 1996.
Participated in the Ph.D. “Course on FORTRAN programming and modelling in geography”, Remote Sensing & GIS Lab, Department of Physical Geography Lund University, Spring 1997.
Participated with a lecture on the application of GIS in physical geography and environmental fields. The lecture has been presented during the convening of the 15th General Assembly meeting of the Saudi Geographical Society and the 6th meeting of Geography departments in Saudi Arabia, in King Abdulaziz University Jeddah (14-16/11/1419H).
Presented a co-authored research paper on Physical geographical Database Design and preparation for Saudi Arabia. The 9th Saudi Geography Departments Symposium, Riyadh kSA 2006.
