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)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
The research vessel "James COOK"
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Remote-controlled sailboat
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
