A year from the Arctic

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Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.

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Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

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This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.

Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Préparation des mésocosmes sur le ponton du laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)