mon océan & moi

The research vessel "James COOK"

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (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)

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)

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)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Posters

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Remote-controlled sailboat

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

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)