Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)