Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
