Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
