mon océan & moi

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

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)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)