Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)