A year from the Antarctic

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The profiling float

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Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.

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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.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Carte bathymétrique mondiale

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Teaching sheets

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)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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Ceratium - Capter la lumière avec ses doigts
Ceratium appartient à l'immense groupe des dinoflagellés.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)