Quizz marine phytoplankton

Mollusques (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

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This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

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Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Posters

Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)