Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Amphipode crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)