Puzzle Ocean Seasons : Bloom

Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

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Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Posters

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana

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)

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Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)