mon océan & moi

World ocean currents map

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

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)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Stickers & Goodies

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)