Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Préparation des mésocosmes sur le ponton du laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
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)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.