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 extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
The research vessel "James COOK"
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
