mon océan & moi

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

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)

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Carte bathymétrique de la Mer Méditerranée

Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)