mon océan & moi

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)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Larva of decapod crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)