mon océan & moi

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 -  Photo : J.-M. Grisoni