Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
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.
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
