A year from the Antarctic

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

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)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

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Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

World ocean currents map

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Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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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.

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)

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)