mon océan & moi

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Siphonophore  Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Teaching sheets

Ctenaria Beroe ovata  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)

Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni