mon océan & moi

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

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)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium macroceros var macroceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)