mon océan & moi

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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)

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

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

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard) 

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)