mon océan & moi

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

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

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)