News room

28 September 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Kristel Chanard receives the AGU's John Wahr Early Career Award

Kristel Chanard, an IGN geophysicist in the IPGP geodesy team, is the 2023 recipient of the John Wahr Early Career Award presented by the American Geo...

25 September 2023

Press, Research

The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere studied using impact craters

An international team shows that rocks from the hydrothermal system formed following the impact of the Rochechouart asteroid around 200 million years ...

18 September 2023

Events, General public, Observatories, Press

"Fête de la science" 2023 at the national magnetic observatory in Chambon-la-Forêt

Why does magnetic North move? What happens when the Sun triggers a magnetic storm? Discover the Earth's magnetic field on 6 and 7 October 2023!

05 September 2023

Press, Research

The Earth's mantle as revealed by plume geochemistry

In a review article, an international team, including researchers from the IPGP, presents a review of present knowledge of the deep dynamics of the Ea...

05 September 2023

Press, Research

2000 years of seismicity on the San Andreas fault segment modulated by the level of the Salton Sea

Using a technique traditionally used in civil engineering, two seismologists, including Yann Klinger, a researcher at the Institut de Physique du Glob...

04 September 2023

General public, Observatories, Press

End of the eruption at Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island

The eruption began on 2 July 2023, at around 8:30 am local time and stopped on 10 August 2023, at around 5 am local time (01:00 am UTC), after a phase...

05 July 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Charlotte Dejean, winner of the 2023 i-PhD innovation competition organised by Bpifrance

Her project for bio-assisted extraction from mining waste was selected as one of the winners of the French government's i-PhD innovation competition, ...

03 July 2023

General public, Observatories, Press

Eruption in progress at Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island

An eruption started at Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion Island on 2 July 2023, at around 8.30am local time. Two eruption sites have been identified...

23 June 2023

Institute Life, Press

Edouard Kaminski elected President of Université Paris Cité

On June 22, Édouard Kaminski, a geophysicist and a professor of physical volcanology at the IPGP, was elected President by the members of the Executiv...

21 June 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Isabelle Panet honoured by the French Académie des Sciences

On Wednesday 21 June, Isabelle Panet, an IGN researcher and geophysicist at the IPGP and Université Paris Cité, was awarded the Grand Prix Scientifiqu...

16 June 2023

General public, Press, Research

The IPGP, a long history of analysing extraterrestrial material

Last April, China offered France 1.5 grams of lunar rock. On Thursday 15 June, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle announced the future creation ...

14 June 2023

Press, Research

Risk science in the age of climate change

Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, avalanches - these are just some of the hazards that place the question of risk at the heart of the debate ...

07 June 2023

Press, Research

Geochemical signatures of archaeological artefacts as tracers of Polynesian settlements

By using the isotopic signatures of Polynesian archaeological artefacts, an interdisciplinary team including archaeologists and geochemists from the C...

07 June 2023

Events, General public, Institute Life, Press

[Replay] Watch the video of the IPGP's "Geosciences for Tomorrow" day

On 21 April, the IPGP brought its centenary celebrations to a close with a "Geosciences for Tomorrow" day, bringing together a range of disciplinary p...

05 May 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Mathilde Cannat receives the 2023 Arthur Holmes Medal from the EGU

Mathilde Cannat, from the Marine Geosciences team of the IPGP, is awarded for her contribution to the understanding of mid-ocean ridges in terms of te...