Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS

Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

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