mon océan & moi

Trimaran of INSU

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

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

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)