Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Remote-controlled sailboat
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Cténophores - Orgie de couleurs
Vagues de lumière iridescentes, à l'affût de proies, voici les cténophores.
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.