Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA