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Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
Stefan Helmreich
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Description for Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 422 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 7 line illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678. Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas. 422 pages, illustrations. 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. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHM; RBKC. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight: 652.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
422
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
422
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520250628
SKU
V9780520250628
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About Stefan Helmreich
Stefan Helmreich is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World (UC Press).
Reviews for Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
"Unique [and] innovative... Captures the excitement and crucial nature of oceanographic research... Perhaps Alien Ocean will inspire the next generation to fulfill the promise of environmental genomic sequencing." Nature "Intriguingly, Alien Ocean's main characters are arguably not the scientists, nor Helmreich, but the sea itself and the bizarre microbial communities recently found there." Seed Magazine "Erudite, widely ranging account of ... Read more