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Author(s): Stefan Helmreich
ISBN(s): 9780520942608, 0520942604
Edition: Reprint 2019
File Details: PDF, 21.01 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520942604 
ISBN 13: 9780520942608
Author: Stefan Helmreich

Alien Ocean immerses 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 the origin of life, climate change, biotechnology, and even the possibility of life on other worlds.

Alien Ocean immerses 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

Alien Ocean Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas 1st Table of contents:

1. THE MESSAGE FROM THE MUD: MAKING MEANING OUT OF MICROBES IN MONTEREY BAY
2. DISSOLVING THE TREE OF LIFE: ALIEN KINSHIP AT HYDROTHERMAL VENTS
3. BLUE-GREEN CAPITALISM: MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY IN HAWAI‘I
4. ALIEN SPECIES, NATIVE POLITICS: MIXING UP NATURE AND CULTURE IN OCEAN O‘AHU
5. ABDUCTING THE ATLANTIC: HOW THE OCEAN GOT ITS GENOME
6. SUBMARINE CYBORGS: TRANSDUCTIVE ETHNOGRAPHY AT THE SEAFLOOR, JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE
7. EXTRATERRESTRIAL SEAS: ASTROBIOLOGY AND THE NATURE OF ALIEN LIFE

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