mon océan & moi

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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

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)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Mollusk  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Carte bathymétrique mondiale

Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.

Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)