Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
