Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée