Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (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.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)