mon océan & moi

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Posters

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

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Carte bathymétrique mondiale

World ocean currents map

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)