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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)

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

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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.

Trimaran of INSU

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Teaching sheets

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Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum. In the video one can observe the movement of one of the two flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Carte bathymétrique mondiale

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Appendiculaires - Ils vivent dans leurs filets
L’appendiculaire, proche ancêtre des vertébrés, fabrique des logettes aux filtres délicats à la fois résidence et filet de pêche.