Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Siphonophore (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)
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)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (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.
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana