Alien Ocean Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

Name: Alien Ocean Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
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ISBN: 9780520250628

ISBN-10: 0520250621

ISBN-13: 9780520250628

Edition: 2010

Authors: Stefan Helmreich

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Alien Oceanimmerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in Monterey Bay, Hawai'i, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Sargasso Sea and at undersea volcanoes in the eastern Pacific, Stefan Helmreich charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in astonishingly extreme conditions, such microbes have become key figures in scientific and public debates about…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Moorings


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Life at Sea



The Message from the Mud: Making Meaning Out of Microbes in Monterey Bay



Dissolving the Tree of Life: Alien Kinship at Hydrothermal Vents



Blue-Green Capitalism: Marine Biotechnology In Hawai'i



Alien Species, Native Politics: Mixing up Nature and Culture in Ocean O'Ahu



Abducting the Atlantic: How the Ocean Got Its Genome



Submarine Cyborgs: Transductive Ethnography at the Seafloor, Juan de Fuca Ridge



Extraterrestrial Seas: Astrobiology and the Nature of Alien Life


Notes


Bibliography


Index