CHAPTER 27
To someone not trained in marine biology, the data collected by Sakiko over several years was a trackless forest. Michael skimmed her numbers and graphs but had to read each introduction and summary of her published papers (and a few unpublished ones), sometimes two or three times. It was like learning a new language; and memories of biology courses taken years earlier were little help—his brain taunting him with something he once understood.
Those courses had focused mostly on human physiology and biochemistry anyway—the basics of genetics, and the inter-relatedness of the Earth’s ecosystems too, but not the reproductive processes of oceanic algae, acoustical dynamics of pH changes in seawater, or the relation of thermal gradients to reef biodiversity. A lot of the terms and
