Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Quizz phytoplankton This quizz is about the concepts covered in the topic : marine phytoplankton.
