Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
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.
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)