mon océan & moi

Remote-controlled sailboat

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

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Trimaran of INSU

World ocean currents map

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Copepode Coryceide  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)