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

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Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Préparation des mésocosmes sur le ponton du laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

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)