Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.
 
 
 
 
			Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 -  Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Coccolithophore  (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)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
 
 
 
			Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)