Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-JacquesPangrazi)
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis(Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)