mon océan & moi

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Krill (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)

The research vessel "James COOK"

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)