mon océan & moi

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

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

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)