Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum

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Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR

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Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Teaching sheets

Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

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