mon océan & moi

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Remote-controlled sailboat

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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)

Siphonophore  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples