Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
