Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

World ocean currents map

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)