mon océan & moi

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Trimaran of INSU

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)