mon océan & moi

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)

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)

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)

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

World ocean currents map