Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Teaching sheets

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Copepode Coryceide  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)