mon océan & moi

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)