mon océan & moi

Remote-controlled sailboat

Diatom species Odontella mobiliensis (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Radiolarians  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium teresgyr (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)