Puzzle Ocean Seasons : Bloom

The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR

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The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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

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Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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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.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)