Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
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.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (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)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
