Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
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)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
