Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

World ocean currents map

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Préparation des mésocosmes sur le ponton du laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)