Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
