mon océan & moi

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK

Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Teaching sheets

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Copepode Coryceide  (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)

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