A year from the Antarctic

Gélatineux : Salpes et Beroe (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.

Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium hexacanthum
chaîne de Ceratium hexacanthum qui restent les uns à la suites des autres au fur et à mesure des divisions.
Le mouvement des flagelles est bien visible.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "James COOK"

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)