Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Ctenaria Beroe ovata (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni