Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Coryceide (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
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)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni