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.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
