Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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.
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)