Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
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.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni