Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)