Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples