Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
