Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)