Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
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 macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
This video describes how to perform the Ludion experiment and explains the physical processes involved.
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
