A year from the Antarctic

Cnidaires : Pelagia noctiluca (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)

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)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Stickers & Goodies

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

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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.

Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana

Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)