PlanktonPlankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
The Glider
Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.
Cténophores - Orgie de couleursVagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidumCeratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pelagia - Fearsome JellyfishMauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatoms - Life in glass housesChampions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
World ocean currents map
