Les Diatomées - Bacillaria - mon océan et moi

Cnidaires : Rhizostoma pulmo (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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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.

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Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Carte bathymétrique mondiale

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)