Alien ocean : anthropological voyages in microbial seas.
"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 Ho...
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Berkeley :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Life at Sea
- 1. The Message from the Mud: Making Meaning Out of Microbes in Monterey Bay
- 2. Dissolving the Tree of Life: Alien Kinship at Hydrothermal Vents
- 3. Blue-Green Capitalism: Marine Biotechnology in Hawai{oki}I
- 4. Alien Species, Native Politics: Mixing Up Nature and Culture in Ocean O{oki}ahu
- 5. Abducting the Atlantic: How the Ocean Got Its Genome
- 6. Submarine Cyborgs: Transductive Ethnography at the Seafloor, Juan de Fuca Ridge
- 7. Extraterrestrial Seas: Astrobiology and the Nature of Alien Life.