mon océan & moi

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Teaching sheets

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

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)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)