Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
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)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Pleurobrachia
Propulsées par huit rangées de peignes, les groseilles de mer déploient deux longs tentacules pour pêcher des crustacés.
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)