mon océan & moi

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

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)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)