Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Radiolarians (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)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ceratium - Capter la lumière avec ses doigts
Ceratium appartient à l'immense groupe des dinoflagellés.
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)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)