Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores 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.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Rosette for collecting seawater samples
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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)