%0 Journal Article %T Status of Neutrino Astronomy: The Quest for Kilometer-Scale Instruments %A F. Halzen %J Physics %D 1997 %I arXiv %X This is a (very) personal attempt to summarize the status of neutrino astronomy: its scientific motivations, our understanding of natural water and ice as particle detectors and, finally, the detector technology. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701029v1