Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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)

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

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

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (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 gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)