Puzzle Observation tools

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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The Glider

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.

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

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.

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Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.

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)