mon océan & moi

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

The research vessel "James COOK"

Amphipode crustacean  (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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (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)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

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

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)