Les Diatomées - Bacillaria - mon océan et moi

Crustacés : Krill (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

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Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.

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Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)