Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
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)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
