mon océan & moi

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

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

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)

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)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Remote-controlled sailboat

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)