Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pleurobrachia
Propulsées par huit rangées de peignes, les groseilles de mer déploient deux longs tentacules pour pêcher des crustacés.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
