Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
