mon océan & moi

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Foraminifera Orbulina universa  and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

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

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

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)