Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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 furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
