Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Appendiculaires - Ils vivent dans leurs filets
L’appendiculaire, proche ancêtre des vertébrés, fabrique des logettes aux filtres délicats à la fois résidence et filet de pêche.
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
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)
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.
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
