Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
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)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Préparation et mise à l'eau des mésocosmes sur le ponton de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Radiolarians (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
