mon océan & moi

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)

World ocean currents map

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche en face de l'observatoire océanologique de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée

Copepode Coryceide  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)