mon océan & moi

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

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

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

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

The research vessel "James COOK"

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

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

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)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)