mon océan & moi

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ostracodes  (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)