Les Diatomées - Bacillaria - mon océan et moi

Déploiement dun flotteur - Photo JJ. Pangrazi

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.

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

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)

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Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)