Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 -  Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
  
			Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
 
 
 
 
 
			Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic