mon océan & moi

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

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

The research vessel "James COOK"

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

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)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)