Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520250628)

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.

Author: Stefan Helmreich
ISBN-10: 0520250621
ISBN-13: 9780520250628
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2009
Pages: 422
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2009