Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
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.