Studying penguins towards understanding sustainability on earth

A research grant of RM150,000 from Yayasan Penyelidikan Antartika Sultan Mizan (YPASM) in 2018 has allowed a team led by me to study penguin decomposition under Antarctica climate, a subject which is under studied but yet, very interesting. The team made up of five people including me, a forensic entomologist from the Faculty of Medicine, UiTM as Principal Investigator. I visited Antarctica from December 16, 2019 until January 6, 2020 (a duration of 3-week) and was attached to King Sejong Station (a South Korean research station under KOPRI - Korean Polar Research Institute), St. George Island, Antarctic Peninsula (1,000 km from the South America continent).