Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
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)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ceratium - Capter la lumière avec ses doigts
Ceratium appartient à l'immense groupe des dinoflagellés.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
