mon océan & moi

Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

World ocean currents map

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

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)