Category: Oceanography
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On swimming
Swimming: the act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water. On our blue planet, many life forms were once faced with the same question: how do I move through that aqueous medium towards that prey/shelter/sexual partner over there? What I want to discuss here is how many possible answers there are to…
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A video (in french) about interactions in phytoplankton blooms
The title says it all. This is a video I put together with some images and results of mine, and some CC BY images and music. Big thanks to all the people who create and share CC BY media on Commons, Free Music Archive and elsewhere on the web. Enjoy. This video itself is under…
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La vie en mer
Un bateau c’est un monde de nœuds, de bruits, de peintures écaillées. Un monde d’habitudes où le temps est rythmé par les quarts et les repas au carré. C’est un langage où bosco, bâbord, manœuvre, côtoient bout, milles et passerelle. On se demande si on est mardi ou mercredi. On ne fait jamais la cuisine…
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Looking at microbes from space
If your goal is to look for marine microorganisms, putting a drop of seawater under a microscope seems the most straightforward way. Sometimes, however, taking a step back can reveal even more. We’re talking about a big, 786-km step back – the altitude of Sentinel-2, a constellation of Earth observation satellites launched by the European…
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