Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

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Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

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

Stefan Helmreich

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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.

Kategorien:

Biology and other natural sciences

Jahr:

2009

Auflage:

1st

Verlag:

University of California Press

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

422