Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
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)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
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)
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera Orbulina universa and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
