Voyage to Antarctica

300.00

About the Book

This book chronicles the author’s firsthand experience during the expedition to Antarctica as part of the 36th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA) that he undertook during 2016-17. The Antarctic expedition is narrated chronologically in this book, right from the inspiration for undertaking the expedition, acclimatization training at The Himalayas and so on till many months after the completion of the expedition to assess the effect of the expedition on personal and professional life. While the book is about the Indian expedition, it covers Antarctica at the international arena, explains the past, present, and future of the continent, the science behind a number of the natural phenomenon of Antarctica and would arguably serve as the most authentic popular science book on Antarctica worldwide yet.

About the Author

Dr Felix Bast is a teacher, scientist and science writer based at Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab. He earned his PhD in molecular phylogenetics from MEXT, Japan (Monbukagakusho Japanese Government Fellow), and received training from Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, USA, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK and Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT), Germany. He served as an invited in-residence intern with President of India as an Inspired teacher in 2015, and had been recipient of INSA-INSPIRE Faculty Award from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He also received Teaching Innovator Award 2016 from MHRD, Govt. of India. He is an elected fellow of INSA-INYAS, New Delhi. His major research contributions include the discovery of two new species of marine algae from Indian coast, the discovery of endophytic algae from the Indian Ocean for the first time, demystification of blood rain phenomenon. This book chronicles author’s first-hand experience during the expedition to Antarctica as part of the 36th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA) that he undertook during 2016-17.