mon océan & moi

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

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)

Amphipode crustacean  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Posters

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ostracodes  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

The research vessel "Marion Dufresne"

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

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)