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)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
