A year from the Antarctic

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (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)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Trimaran of INSU

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

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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.

Préparation et mise à l'eau des mésocosmes sur le ponton de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)