Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
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)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
The research vessel "James COOK"
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
