Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum
Ceratium gravidum dont en voit parfaitement les mouvements d’un des deux flagelles.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)