Puzzle Zooplankton : Larva Calamar

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.

The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

The profiling float

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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