Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Radiolarians (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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)