Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
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)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Préparation des mésocosmes sur le ponton du laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
