News

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...

20 April 2021

Press, Research

Landscape-scale experiment reveals how dune size is selected

By levelling a dune field in the Gobi Desert and observing the emergence and growth of new dunes at high resolution for over 3 years, an international...

15 April 2021

General public, Press, Research

Ecorc'Air, the urban pollution measured in the bark of plane trees

Ecorc'Air, a participatory science project run by several institutions, aims to collect plane tree bark in order to establish a precise map of fine me...

16 March 2021

Press, Research

Meteorite reveals oldest known planetary crust

A team of researchers from the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer in Brest (CNRS, Université de Bretagne-Occidentale), the Institut de Physique...

16 March 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

REVOSIMA: a new automatic earthquake detection method

Since March 1st, 2021, Mayotte's volcanological and seismological monitoring network (REVOSIMA) has been using a new method for automatically detectin...