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16 May 2025
Junior Professor position “Geology of exoplanets”
A junior professor position is open to recruitment by Université Paris Cité for an assignment at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris on the the...
14 May 2025
Discovery of a crustal lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) topping a large magma reservoir at Axial volcano in the Eastern Pacific
A team from the United States and Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) has imaged a crustal lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) as the t...
Key figures
103
years of science for the planet in 2024
4
French active volcanoes monitored by the IPGP
500
members of staff approximately (researchers, engineers, technicians, administrative staff, post-docs and PhD candidates)
1
observatory on Mars (mission completed in 2022)
404
publications in 2022 (including 37 in high impact journals such as Nature, Science and PNAS)
8
locations: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion Island, Chambon-la-Forêt, Champs-sur-Marne and 2 locations in Paris
Agenda
10 Jun
Séminaires de Sismologie
Micros-seismic repeaters in deep mines: An example from the Garpenberg mine (Central Sweden)
Speaker: Mariano Simón Arnaiz Rodríguez
11 Jun
Séminaires Dynamique des fluides géologiques
Vegetation-dependent topographic patterns in arid landscapes
Speaker: Andrew Gunn
13 Jun
Séminaires thème Risques naturels
--- GRAND SEMINAIRE DE THEME --- Fault creep: what is it, how do we find it and what does it mean?
Speaker: Gareth Funning
Last publications
Vignati Davide A.L., Cossu-Leguille C., Simon Céline, Beuret Maximilien, Normant Vincent, Bojic Clement, Salles Elsa, Frongia Carla, Sivry Yann, Nguyen Thi Tuyen, Groleau Alexis, Marsac Remi, Catrouillet Charlotte, Erban Kochergina Yulia, Kram Pavel. Baseline Ecotoxicity of Waters from a Pristine Creek on Ultramafic substrate (Pluhuv Bor, Czechia). 06 July 2025.
Nguyen Thi Tuyen, Marsac Remi, Groleau Alexis, Vignati Davide A.L., Krishnan Sajeev, Sivry Yann. New Insights into the Speciation of Trivalent Chromium Exchangeable Pools at Particle Surfaces: An Isotopic Exchange Kinetic Model. 06 July 2025.
Watkinson Maud, Stephant Sylvain, Battaglia-Brunet Fabienne, Loschetter Annick, van der Schans Martin, Regenspurg Simona, Rad Sétareh. Investigating the effects of high-temperature thermal energy storage on aquifer biogeochemistry. 06 July 2025.
Giampietro Tiziano, Manighetti Isabelle, Leclerc Frédérique, Gaudemer Yves. Distributions of throws, widths and scarp slopes on normal faults and their relations to fault growth: Insights from Auto_Throw code. Journal of Structural Geology, Elsevier, July 2025, 196. <10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105393>
Valet Jean-Pierre, Savranskaia Tatiana, Simon Quentin, Egli Ramon, Bassinot Franck, Thouveny Nicolas. Geomagnetic moment variation over the last 4.4 Million years through high resolution paleointensity and 10Be production records along ocean sediment sequences. Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, July 2025, 359. <10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109367>
Our observatories
and stations
Mars
InSight National Observation Service
The NASA InSight mission deployed a geophysical observatory on the surface of Mars at the end of 2018, performing simultaneous seismic, geodetic and magnetic measurements. This National Observation Service is supported by the IPGP, together with several French laboratories and observatories (in particular the LPG and GEOAZUR).
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