Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
