Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
The research vessel "James COOK"
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)