Quizz marine zooplankton

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

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Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "James COOK"

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

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Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.

Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)