mon océan & moi

Copepode Coryceide  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)