mon océan & moi

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

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 -  Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

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)

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)