mon océan & moi

Copepode Coryceide  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (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)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (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 : Emilie Diamond)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium reflexum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)