Les Diatomées - Bacillaria - mon océan et moi

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Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?

Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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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.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Underwater glider

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Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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