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20 June 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Frédéric Moynier elected 2022 Fellow of the Meteoritical Society

Frédéric Moynier, a professor at Université Paris Cité working in the cosmochemistry, astrophysics and experimental geophysics team at the IPGP, has b...

16 June 2022

Press, Research

Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ magma crystallization

While two-thirds of the Earth's crust is formed at ocean ridges by mantle melting, the process by which the lower part of the crust is formed is still...

16 June 2022

Press, Research

The mystery of Mediterranean low-salt gypsum deposits

Around six million years ago, at the end of the Miocene, the Mediterranean Sea underwent a period of rapid drying, gradually turning into a saline gia...

23 May 2022

Press, Research

Publication of the new international terrestrial reference system

Zuheir Altamini, head of the team that calculates and publishes the new ITRF benchmark, and a geodesy researcher at IGN and IPGP, talks about the impo...

22 May 2022

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

First magnitude 5 earthquake "heard" on Mars

A "Marsquake" with an estimated magnitude of 5 shook the Red Planet on the night of 04/05/2022. The French SEIS instrument, deployed on the ground by ...

11 May 2022

Press, Research

Towards a better understanding of the geodynamic driving force

The Earth's magnetic field is useful for life, enabling many animal and bacterial species to orient themselves in their environment. It is also capabl...

19 April 2022

Press, Research

Deep plate movements prior to a mega-earthquake detected in the Earth's gravity field

A study led by researchers from IPGP, IGN and Université Paris Cité, shows that deep mass redistributions can be observed prior to a subduction zone m...

24 February 2022

Press, Research

Organic carbon preferentially recycled in the deep Earth

An international team of researchers from CRPG, IPGP, Université de Paris and Durham University has shown that during subduction processes, organic ca...

10 February 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Observatories, Press, Research

WebObs software wins MESRI's first Open Science prize for open source software

The WebObs tool designed by the IPGP's volcanological and seismological observatories has been awarded an Open Science prize for free research softwar...

27 January 2022

Press, Research

Volcano Hunga Tonga, an unusual eruption

On January 15th, 2022, the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in the Tonga archipelago in the Pacific Ocean created a volcanic plume several tens of ...

12 January 2022

Press, Research

Formation of the solar system's first small bodies in two separate rings

The formation of small solar system bodies, such as asteroids and planetesimals, remains a mystery. While there's general agreement that their formati...

06 January 2022

Press, Research

IPGP researchers search for nanoparticles on glaciers

In autumn 2021, two IPGP researchers will carry out a sampling mission on Alpine glaciers, with the aim of tracing the distribution and source of nano...