Diatoms - Life in glass houses Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Appendiculaires - Ils vivent dans leurs filets L’appendiculaire, proche ancêtre des vertébrés, fabrique des logettes aux filtres délicats à la fois résidence et filet de pêche.
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
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)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-JacquesPangrazi)
