Oceanography: Marine Monitoring, Microbiology, and Materiality

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Oceanography: Marine Monitoring, Microbiology, and Materiality
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Armen Avanessian
Edited by Werner Boschmann
Edited by Karen Sarkisov
SeriesSternberg Press / XXI Century Science
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:152
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 146
ISBN/Barcode 9783956795411
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 28 December 2021
Publication Country United States

Description

New approaches to the ocean enabled by the new field of (microbial) oceanography. In recent years, a new field of scientific research has been put forward, the so-called (microbial) oceanography, which offers a new mapping of the ocean from its shiny surfaces to lightless sea floors. Oceanography combines techniques of molecular biology, gene sequencing, bioinformatics, and remote sensing, among others. Oceans are a crucial factor in global climate and necessary condition for human survival on earth, and findings from oceanography can help people better understand life (and survival) in the Anthropocene. Not only are all life forms of marine origin, but the oceans also host extremophiles-that is, microbial life forms living under extreme conditions of heat, cold, lack of light-which are integral to understanding what possible alternative life forms might look like. It may be that such mainly anthropogenic forces as overfishing, pollution, deep-sea mining, and acidification suggest that a new concept of the ocean-Anthropocean-needs to be discussed. New approaches in cultural studies as well as in the history of sciences are shifting our vision of the ocean, considering the previous realm of immeasurable broad and depth as a fundamental contrast to a human history and culture in order to rewrite it. Edited in dialogue withStefan Helmreich Copublished with the V-A-C Foundation Contributors Penny Chisholm, Robert Danovano, Sabine H hler, Jessica Lehman, Naomi Oreskes, Helen Rozwadoski, Philip Steinberg, Cindy van Dover

Author Biography

Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life, and Silicon Second Nature. Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.