Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Trimaran of INSU

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)