mon océan & moi

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

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Stickers & Goodies

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

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)