mon océan & moi

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

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

The research vessel "James COOK"

Trimaran of INSU

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)