Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (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)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.