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Release of the IPGP's 2024 Annual Report

02 July 2025

Release of the IPGP's 2024 Annual Report

The IPGP annual report, in both French and English, aims to share our enthusiasm for all the research we conduct with as many people as possible. It p...

Director position of the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP)

25 June 2025

Director position of the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP)

The position of Director of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) is vacant as of March 24, 2026.

IPGP is now on Twitch!

25 June 2025

IPGP is now on Twitch!

Following on from the MOOC Notre Planète (Our Planet), which is still open for enrolment, the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris is launching its ...

Three ERC advanced grants awarded to the IPGP: new advances in cosmochemistry and planetary sciences

17 June 2025

Three ERC advanced grants awarded to the IPGP: new advances in cosmochemistry and planetary sciences

The Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) has just been awarded three advanced grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for projects le...

Active weather and organic chemistry on Titan: new observations from the James Webb space telescope

16 June 2025

Active weather and organic chemistry on Titan: new observations from the James Webb space telescope

The James Webb space telescope (JWST), in collaboration with the ground-based Keck II telescope, has for the first time observed cloud convection in t...

Key figures

103

103

years of science for the planet in 2024

4

4

French active volcanoes monitored by the IPGP

500

500

members of staff approximately (researchers, engineers, technicians, administrative staff, post-docs and PhD candidates)

1

1

observatory on Mars (mission completed in 2022)

404

404

publications in 2022 (including 37 in high impact journals such as Nature, Science and PNAS)

8

8

locations: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion Island, Chambon-la-Forêt, Champs-sur-Marne and 2 locations in Paris

Agenda

04 Jul

Séminaires thème Origines

Inside-Out: Connecting Rocky Planet Interiors and Atmospheres using Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Models

Speaker: Maggie Thompson

15 Jul

Séminaires Géochimie

Carbon isotopes in magmatic systems and the δ13C signature of Earth’s upper mantle

Speaker: Yves Moussallam

16 Jul

Séminaires Dynamique des fluides géologiques

Ancient geodynamo driven by lunar tides beneath a basal magma ocean

Speaker: Richard Katz

03 Oct

Séminaires thème Risques naturels

--- GRAND SEMINAIRE DE THEME --- Seismotectonic Analog Experiments: Simulating Subduction Earthquake Cycles at Laboratory Scale

Speaker: Ehsan Kosari

Last publications

Geymond U., Loiseau K., Roche V., Pasquet G., Revillon S., Sougrati M., Moretti I.. Mössbauer spectroscopy: a key tool to quantify Fe-speciation and distribution in H2-generating rocks. Applied Geochemistry, Elsevier, August 2025, 187. <10.1016/j.apgeochem.2025.106399>

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.

Sheward D., Delbo M., Avdellidou C., Cook A., Lognonné P.. Detection of small fresh craters on the Moon. Astronomy & Astrophysics - A&A, EDP Sciences, July 2025, 699. <10.1051/0004-6361/202555481>

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Mars
Mars

InSight National Observation Service

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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