Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
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)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
