Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Orbulina universa  and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (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)

Remote-controlled sailboat

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)