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.
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)