Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
