Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)