Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
