Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Préparation et mise à l'eau des mésocosmes sur le ponton de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
