Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (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.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (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.
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
