This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
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)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
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.
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
