Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
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)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
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.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
