Kochi, Nov. 3 -- Ms Athira A. S, a research scholar at the ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (ICAR-CIFT), Kochi, will be part of the 46th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA), scheduled to leave India on November 7.
She will be stationed at the Maitri Research Station in Antarctica to undertake research on actinomycete diversity in Antarctic soil, focusing on microbial diversity in the region's terrestrial ecosystem, ICAR-CIFT Director Dr George Ninan said in a release.
Her research is part of the project 'Contaminant Load Evaluation in Antarctic Natural Systems (CLEAN-ANT)' (ISEA-63), coordinated by the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of...