Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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.
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
