mon océan & moi

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "James COOK"

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

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (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)