Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Remote-controlled sailboat
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)