Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pleurobrachia
Propulsées par huit rangées de peignes, les groseilles de mer déploient deux longs tentacules pour pêcher des crustacés.
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
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