Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Pleurobrachia
Propulsées par huit rangées de peignes, les groseilles de mer déploient deux longs tentacules pour pêcher des crustacés.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
