Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (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)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
