mon océan & moi

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Remote-controlled sailboat

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)