News

01 September 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Birth of Mayotte's undersea volcano: the largest undersea eruption ever documented

A study published on August 26th, 2021 in Nature Geoscience looks back at the discovery of a new submarine volcanic edifice off Mayotte in May 2019 du...

26 July 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

InSight mission: Mars unveiled

Based on a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the SEIS broadband seismometer, developed in France, the international team of NASA's InSight mission...

30 June 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Successful installation of the first connected underwater observatory in Guadeloupe

By recording its first earthquake on Sunday, June 20th, 2021, two days after its installation was completed, the new optical underwater observatory in...

26 June 2021

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

InSight regains energy after cleaning its solar panels

The SEIS experiment, part of NASA's Insight mission and operated and distributed by IPGP as part of the InSight National Observing Service (NOS), will...

11 June 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Anne Mangeney appointed Senior Member of the IUF

The Institut Universitaire de France, whose mission is to promote the development of high-level research in universities and to encourage the excellen...

04 June 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Arnaud Lemarchand named Knight of the National Order of Merit

Arnaud Lemarchand, research engineer at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, has been awarded the rank of Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Méri...

02 June 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Yann Klinger, SGF Pierre Pruvost Award

02 June 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Never-before-seen images of Mayotte's underwater volcano

In parallel with the monitoring campaigns led by Revosima, Geoflamme, the first campaign dedicated to scientific research on the undersea volcano off ...

21 May 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Philippe Lognonné and Philippe Labrot honored by the French Astronomical Society

Every year, the Board of Directors of the Société Astronomique de France awards prizes and medals to people it wishes to congratulate for their work o...

05 May 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

Underwater observatory south of Terre-de-Bas, Guadeloupe

This Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, teams working on the PREST project (led by OVSM-IPGP) will be setting up an underwater observatory, equipped with innova...

05 May 2021

Press, Research

Subduction already at work on Earth 4 billion years ago

Geochemical analysis of 4-billion-year-old samples has identified the processes that led to their formation. A team led by IPGP scientists has demonst...

29 April 2021

Press, Research

A look back at the Soufrière eruption in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Audrey Michaud-Dubuy and Guillaume Carazzo, volcanologists at the IPGP, look back at the eruption of La Soufrière on the island of Saint-Vincent in th...