Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Appendiculaires - Ils vivent dans leurs filets
L’appendiculaire, proche ancêtre des vertébrés, fabrique des logettes aux filtres délicats à la fois résidence et filet de pêche.
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
