Alien ocean : anthropological voyages in microbial seas /
Helmreich, Stefan,1966-
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-364) and index.
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.
"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.
Whitman College
Marine microbiology
Marine biologists.
Human ecology.
Human ecology.
Marine biologists.
Marine microbiology
Water Microbiology.
Marine Biology.
Alien ocean.