Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pleurobrachia
Propulsées par huit rangées de peignes, les groseilles de mer déploient deux longs tentacules pour pêcher des crustacés.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Remote-controlled sailboat
