Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
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)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
