Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?
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)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
