Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
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)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
