Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
World ocean currents map
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS