mon océan & moi

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)