Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Préparation et mise à l'eau des mésocosmes sur le ponton de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
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)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
