Heo (second right) chats with Mohd Azraai (fifth left) as Mohd Nasaruddin and the rest of the latter’s team look on.
THE icy cold weather of the Antarctic is no barrier for a team of five passionate researchers who are set to study how animals, mainly penguins, decompose in the extreme weather.
Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) parasitology senior lecturer Dr Heo Chong Chin, who is the principal investigator in the research, is setting out with his team to understand the ecology of carcass decomposition in the Antarctic to apply the knowledge in the conservation of polar biodiversity, global food security and forensic archeology.
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