Remote-controlled sailboat
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
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)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
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 praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)