Zooplankton of the week in the Bay of Villefranche

This gallery shows you several plankton organisms (among thousands) that are collected every day by the RadeZoo Service of the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche sur Mer. The samples are digitized using the Zooscan (www.zooscan.com). More information on each sample and on the RadZoo service is available at http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/Rade/RadeZoo/RadZoo. If you use any of the presented pictures for any kind of purpose (illustration, outreach, communication, etc), please refer to "Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche (LOV), ZooScan image project, www.zooscan.com". Please participate in the improvement of the gallery and the observation effort on zooplankton by commenting. Contacts : fp@obs-vlfr.fr, stemmann@obs-vlfr.fr, picheral@obs-vlfr.fr, or gorsky@obs-vlfr.fr. This initiative was undertaken in the framework of the activities of SCOR Working Group 130 Automatic Visual Plankton Identification (www.scor-wg130.net), the CIESM Zooplankton Indicators program (http://www.ciesm.org/marine/programs/zooplankton.htm) it was supported by the SESAME IP of the EU FP6 program (www.sesame-ip.eu).