mon océan & moi

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium paradoxides (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Rosette for collecting seawater samples

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)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium arietinum var arietinum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Average chlorophyll concentration in the surface ocean (from mi-September 1997 to August 2007) from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS (NASA). Subtropical gyres, in the center of the oceanic basins, are characterized by very low concentrations of chlorophyll a (dark blue) - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Posters

Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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)