mon océan & moi

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

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

Trimaran of INSU

Préparation des mésocosmes sur le ponton du laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche lors de l'expérience menée en rade de Villefranche en février 2013 (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

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)

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

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)