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)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni