Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (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)
Phronimes - Monstres des tonneaux
Recyclant salpes et méduses, la femelle phronime construit des tonneaux gélatineux et y élève sa progéniture.
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
