mon océan & moi

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (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)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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