mon océan & moi

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)

Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera Orbulina universa  and mollusk larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.