mon océan & moi

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

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)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)