Le Printemps des Chercheurs

Foraminifères (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (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)

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The profiling float

Teaching sheets

Remote-controlled sailboat

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

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Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.