Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
