Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
