mon océan & moi

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)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Stickers & Goodies

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Copepode Coryceide  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)