mon océan & moi

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)

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

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Trimaran of INSU

Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)