Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.