Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)