mon océan & moi

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)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

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

Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)