mon océan & moi

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

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)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)