Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.