mon océan & moi

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

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)