Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (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)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA