Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)