Bilan des campagnes océanographiques françaises 2011

This document reports on the French oceanographic cruises conducted in 2011. It provides a detailed description of SISMER'S role in archiving cruise information and oceanographic data. It also gives an overall view of the vessels of the French ocean research fleet and how they are used and provides dynamic access to cruise information through the Nautilus web portal (http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/index_FR.htm). This report has been drawn up by IFREMER, and more specifically by the SISMER department in charge of managing cruise data and summaries. The electronic version of this document is available at the following address: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/FR/doc_FR.htm. Clicking on the hypertext links gives direct access to the cruise descriptions. The various reports for French oceanographic cruises are also available via IFREMER'S institutional archive, Archimer, whose address follows: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/.