mon océan & moi

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (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)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

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

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)

Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)