mon océan & moi

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

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)

Tunicata Pyrosoma  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

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)

Dinoflagellés Ceratium massiliense var protuberans (Photo : Sophie Marro)