mon océan & moi

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

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (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)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)