Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

The research vessel "James COOK"

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Trimaran of INSU

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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.

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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