Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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.
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
