Quizz marine phytoplankton

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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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.

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

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

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The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.

Mollusk (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)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)