News

19 August 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Observatories, Press

Aline Peltier awarded the Medal of Honour for Overseas Commitment

Aline Peltier, volcanologist and director of the Volcanological Observatory of Piton de la Fournaise (OVPF-IPGP) was awarded the Bronze Medal of Honou...

09 July 2024

Institute Life, Observatories, Press

Jérôme Vergne becomes the new Director of the OVSM-IPGP

Committed to the various aspects of observing and monitoring telluric phenomena, Jérôme Vergne joined the IPGP on 1 July 2024 as Director of the Volca...

25 June 2024

Press, Research

Evidence of magmatically induced faults at the East Pacific Rise

By comparison of ultra-high-resolution 3-D seismic imagery and bathymetry data collected at the East Pacific Rise (EPR) 9º50'N, researchers reveal the...

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...