Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
 
 
 
			
			
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
 
 
 
			
			Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
 
 
 
			
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.
 
 
 
			Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
	This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
 
 
 
			Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)