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 : David Luquet)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)