Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
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.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
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)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Squid larva (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)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
