mon océan & moi

Carte bathymétrique mondiale

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)