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09 October 2024

Institute Life, Press

Release of the IPGP 2023 annual report

The 2023 edition of the IPGP Annual Report is now available! Find a snapshot of the Institute's activities over the past year, with a number of emble...

27 September 2024

Press, Research

Imminent launch of ESA's HERA mission

On 7 October 2024, from the Cape Canaveral launch pad, the European Space Agency's (ESA) HERA probe will take off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, m...

20 September 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Press

Frédéric Moynier elected AGU Fellow 2024

Each year, AGU bestows this honor to individuals recognized for their scientific eminence, demonstrated through breakthroughs, discoveries or innovati...

20 September 2024

Observatories, Press, Research

A breathtaking view on the bowels of a volcano

Scientists from the Institut Langevin and the IPGP have developed a highly innovative imaging method capable of probing the bowels of a volcano at unp...

19 September 2024

Press, Research

A huge landslide triggered by climate change rocked the Earth for 9 days

In September 2023, a massive landslide in Greenland generated a mysterious seismic signal that was detected worldwide for nine days. A volume of 25 mi...

18 September 2024

Institute Life, Press

The IPGP and the INGV Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Foster Scientific and Technical Collaboration

The Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) and the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) are pleased to announce the signing of...

09 September 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Daniel R. Neuville becomes President of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology (ESGT) for the second time

At the 15th Symposium of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology, held in Cambridge (UK) from July 14 to 19, 2024, the presidency o...

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...

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...

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...