A year from the Arctic

bouée instrumentée - Photo : David Luquet

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata (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)