mon océan & moi

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)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "James COOK"

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)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)