Quizz the ocean seasons

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Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.

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Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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The profiling float

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

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)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Préparation et mise à l'eau des mésocosmes sur le ponton de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)