Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
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)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium hexacanthum
chaîne de Ceratium hexacanthum qui restent les uns à la suites des autres au fur et à mesure des divisions.
Le mouvement des flagelles est bien visible.
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
