Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"