PlanktonPlankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Embryos and larvaeDrifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Underwater glider
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
