Quizz marine phytoplankton

Mollusques (crédit photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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

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

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS

Posters

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

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

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)