Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
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)