Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Préparation et mise à l'eau des mésocosmes sur le ponton de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
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)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Remote-controlled sailboat
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.