Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
