mon océan & moi

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

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

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Satellite observation (GEOS-12) of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico - Source : NASA-NOAA