Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR