mon océan & moi

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

World ocean currents map

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)