Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Krill (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)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
