Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Appendiculaires - Ils vivent dans leurs filets
L’appendiculaire, proche ancêtre des vertébrés, fabrique des logettes aux filtres délicats à la fois résidence et filet de pêche.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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.
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)