Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial SeasUniversity of California Press, 1 sep. 2023 - 422 sidor 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2010. 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 |
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MAKING MEANING OUT OF MICROBES IN MONTEREY BAY | 31 |
ALIEN KINSHIP AT HYDROTHERMAL VENTS | 68 |
MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY IN HAWAII | 106 |
MIXING UP NATURE AND CULTURE IN OCEAN OAHU | 145 |
HOW THE OCEAN GOT ITS GENOME | 171 |
TRANSDUCTIVE ETHNOGRAPHY AT THE SEAFLOOR JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE | 212 |
ASTROBIOLOGY AND THE NATURE OF ALIEN LIFE | 250 |
Notes | 285 |
Bibliography | 329 |
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