Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
 
 
 
			
Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
 
 
 
			Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Crab larva (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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)