Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera Ruber (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)
Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
