Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)