Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (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)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)