Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Larva of decapod crustacean (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.
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)