Ceratium - Capter la lumière avec ses doigts
Ceratium appartient à l'immense groupe des dinoflagellés.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
The research vessel "James COOK"
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)