Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
