News

14 June 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Research

Charles Le Losq appointed member of the Institut Universitaire de France

The role of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) is to encourage the development of high-level research in universities and to strengthen interd...

30 May 2024

Press, Research

NASA will measure earthquakes on the Moon using technologies developed for the InSight mission on Mars

The technology of the two seismometers that are part of NASA's Farside Seismic Suite instrument has detected more than a thousand earthquakes on the R...

17 May 2024

Observatories, Press

The exceptional magnetic storm observed by the IPGP

On 10 and 11 May, a large part of the northern hemisphere was able to observe the aurora borealis at exceptionally low latitudes. These luminous pheno...

17 May 2024

Press, Research

A new tectonic micro-plate identified north of the Dead Sea Fault

In a study published in Science Advances, an international team has systematically analysed Sentinels-2 radar images to identify a new tectonic micro-...

11 April 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Yann Klinger awarded ERC Advanced Grant 2023

Yann Klinger, CNRS Research Director and head of the Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere team at the IPGP, has been awarded the prestigious Eur...

10 April 2024

General public, Research

Meteorites and magnetism in comics!

To make it easier to communicate her research subject, a researcher from the IPGP and MIT has teamed up with an illustrator, herself a geophysicist, t...

11 March 2024

Press, Research

The NanoMagSat mission gets go-ahead from ESA!

The Programme Board for Earth Observation of the European Space Agency (ESA) has just decided to proceed with the NanoMagSat mission. This mission, in...

07 March 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Research

Kristel Chanard receives the CNRS Bronze Medal

​Kristel Chanard, a geophysicist at IGN within the geodesy team of IPGP, has been awarded the 2024 CNRS Bronze Medal. This medal recognizes the initia...

04 March 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Press

Razvan Caracas receives the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America

Razvan Caracas is a CNRS Senior Researcher in the Cosmochemistry, Astrophysics and Experimental Geochemistry team at the IPGP. He received the Dana Me...

23 February 2024

Research

Sediments from deep submarine basins reveal the history of mega-earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles

An international team led by researchers from the IPGP has, for the first time, traced the history of major earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles over th...

06 February 2024

Education, Institute Life

Job offers: three academic positions open to applications!

Two Assistant professor positions and one professor position at Université Paris Cité are open to competition in geosciences at the IPGP. Applications...

25 January 2024

Press, Research

On Mars, dust avalanches triggered by major earthquakes

By combining data collected by the SEIS seismometer operated by the InSight mission on Mars with available orbital data, a scientific team has reveale...