Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
