mon océan & moi

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

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)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Orbulina universa  and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Stickers & Goodies

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Trimaran of INSU

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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