Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Annelid worm (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)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
