Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)