Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
