mon océan & moi

Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

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

Remote-controlled sailboat

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)