The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe(Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
World ocean currents map
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (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)