Puzzle Phytoplankton : Cranipes big hands

Déploiement dun flotteur - Photo JJ. Pangrazi

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

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

World ocean currents map

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

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium hexacanthum
chaîne de Ceratium hexacanthum qui restent les uns à la suites des autres au fur et à mesure des divisions.
Le mouvement des flagelles est bien visible.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)

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Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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The profiling float

Foraminifera (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)