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)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Remote-controlled sailboat
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
