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03 September 2020

General public, Press, Research

Lead fallout from Notre Dame fire mapped in honey

In a study published this summer, a team of Canadian and French researchers studied honeys from beehives in the Paris region to trace lead pollution l...

03 August 2020

Press, Research

Redox issue of the journal Elements, coordinated by IPGP researchers

The scientific journal Elements, published for 15 years by 17 learned societies mainly in mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, publishes 6 thematic...

24 July 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a period of silence in anthropogenic seismic noise worldwide

A study published in the journal Science by a group of international seismologists, including two scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de...

10 July 2020

Press, Research

A better anticipation of tsunamis thanks to GPS satellites

In a study published on July 6th in Nature - Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (University of ...

07 July 2020

Press, Research

A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia

Bathymetric and seismic data point to a new plate boundary in a fracture-riddled zone beneath the northern Indian Ocean.

03 July 2020

Press, Research

First in situ observations of metal biomineralization mechanisms at the bacterial cell level

Scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques laboratory (University of Paris, CNRS), in colla...

03 July 2020

Press, Research

Paroxysmal volcanic eruptions predicted by temporal variations in helium isotopes

Primordial helium-3 (3He) enrichment is regularly detected in volcanic fluids, but its temporal variability and link with volcanic activity are still ...

22 June 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Audrey Michaud-Dubuy receives the CCR Cat Nat 2020 thesis prize

Audrey Michaud-Dubuy receives the CCR Cat Nat 2020 prize for her thesis entitled: Dynamique des éruptions pliniennes : réévaluation de l'aléa volcaniq...

09 June 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

First results of the Mayobs 13 mission: interview and decoding

Interview with Aline Peltier, REVOSIMA operational manager and director of OVPF (Observatoire volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise) and Jean-Christ...

04 June 2020

Press, Research

Subduction of marine carbonates at the origin of carbonatitic magmatism for over 3 billion years

Scientists at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (University of Paris, IPGP, CNRS) have for the first time demonstrated the link between the s...

04 June 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Initial assessment of MAYOBS 13 campaigns

INTERMINISTERIAL PRESS RELEASE 04/06/2020 - Successful marine campaigns to monitor seismo-volcanic phenomena off Mayotte

04 May 2020

Press, Research

Periodic coastal uplift in a subduction context

Topography in subduction zones is commonly seen as the consequence of tectonic processes occurring at the plate interface where mega-earthquakes such ...

20 April 2020

Education, General public, Press, Research

New session of IPGP's Physical Volcanology MOOC

Following the success of the 2015 and 2017 sessions of the "Physical Volcanology" MOOC, and in these times of confinement, the IPGP is offering you th...

20 April 2020

Press, Research

A new isotope effect opens up unexpected clues to the formation of the Solar System

Researchers from CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, University of Manchester, Université Paris XIII, Sorbonne Université and Institu...

16 April 2020

Press, Research

A new tool for eruption forecasting

With its 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, the Earth's atmosphere is a unique mixture in the Solar System - on Venus and Mars, the atmosphere is essentiall...