mon océan & moi

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

Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

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)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Stickers & Goodies

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera   (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)