Alien ocean : anthropological voyages in microbial seas / Stefan Helmreich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine microbiology--Research.

Marine microbiology.

Human ecology.

Marine biologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2009]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Moorings

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Life at Sea

1. The Message from the Mud:

2. Dissolving the Tree of Life:

3. Blue-Green Capitalism

4. Alien Species, Native Politics

5. Abducting the Atlantic

6. Submarine Cyborgs

7. Extraterrestrial Seas

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520942608

0520942604

OCLC:

1163878471