Alien ocean
anthropological voyages in microbial seas
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Author
Publication
2008 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
100,750 words, Guess
Page Count
403 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16885269M
- ISBN-139780520250611
- OCLC Control Number225872002
- Library of Congress Control Number2008020955
- Goodreads5509283
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- LibraryThing7491246
Classifications
- DDC578.77
- LCCQR106 .H45 2008
- LCCQR106 .H45 2009
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- LCCQR106.H45 2008
Description
"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.
Description
"Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists on ships at sea, in coastal research labs, and at undersea volcanoes, Stefan Helmreich charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine bioligists to view 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."--Cover.
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