Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)