A year from the Arctic

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée

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The profiling float

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)