Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "James COOK"
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
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)
