Quizz marine phytoplankton

Foraminifères : Foraminifère ruber (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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The Glider

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)