Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
