mon océan & moi

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

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)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)