mon océan & moi

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Crab larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Remote-controlled sailboat

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

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)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Elephant seal equipped with a sensor

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)