Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
