Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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 Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
