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)
Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
 
 
 
			
Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?
  
			Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 -  Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
 
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée