Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)