mon océan & moi

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Coccolithophore  (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

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)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)