Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
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)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
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.
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)