Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)