mon océan & moi

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Trimaran of INSU

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

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)

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

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)