mon océan & moi

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)