Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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.
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
