Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Les Diatomées - Bacillaria
Colonie de diatomées du genre Bacillaria dont les individus peuvent glisser les uns par rapport aux autres.
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)