Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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.
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"