Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
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)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Crab larva (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 azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
