Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

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