mon océan & moi

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.