Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : 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.
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.
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)