Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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.
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)