MIT professor for Antartica expedition

K Balakrishna, professor of Geology with the departmentof Civil Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, will be taking part in the coming 37th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA).
Balakrishna is among the 60 scientists from the country taking part in the 37-ISEA, a MIT release said.
He would stay in Antarctica for about three months beginning November and would be working on the assessment of water quality in and around Bharati Station, Larsemann Hills-East Antarctica, the release said.
With this new endeavour, Manipal University would for the first time join the ranks of leading research institutions of the country active in polar research, it said.