mon océan & moi

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)

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples