Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (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)
Elephant seal equipped with a sensor
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)