Paris Institute of Planetary Physics
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) - CNRS - Université Paris Cité
Add: 1 rue Jussieu 75005 Paris Cedex 05
The Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) is a component institution of Université Paris Cité with 300 students, 2 research laboratories, 450 researchers, teacher-researchers, administrative and technical personnel. It is also a leading institution of higher education and research in Earth sciences, in charge of the permanent observation of telluric processes (volcanism, seismicity, magnetic field).
IPGP conducts research in all fields of solid Earth studies by
combining observation, experimentation, laboratory analysis and measurement, and
the construction of conceptual, analog and digital models. IPGP’s research is
organized around four main themes: Earth and Planetary Interiors (structure,
composition, evolution and dynamics of the deep Earth and the planets), Natural
Hazards (lithospheric processes, seafloor, tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes,
landslides, space weather), Earth System (critical zone, large surface cycles,
effects of human activities, biosphere-hydrosphere-geosphere interactions), and
Origins (of the solar system, planets, Earth, life, oceans, atmosphere). The
Institute’s research teams have developed and operate high-level experimental
and analytical equipment, most of which is grouped together in instrumental
platforms open to the academic and industrial world.
The institute is responsible for the observatories of the three active volcanoes
in France (La Soufrière in Guadeloupe, Montagne Pelée in Martinique and Piton de
la Fournaise in Reunion Island). It likewise operates a network of 33 seismic
stations and 11 magnetic observatories around the world, as well as the national
magnetic observatory in Chambon-la-Forêt.
IPGP provides degree programs, from bachelor’s to doctorate level, whose
objective is to prepare geoscience students for the world of fundamental and
applied research, for professions related to the exploration and management of
natural resources, as well as for those in the environmental field. IPGP’s
position in the world of international research enables it to attract highly
motivated students from France but also from Europe, America, Asia and Africa.
IPGP, a historical partner of Paris Diderot University, whose foundation dates
back almost a century (1921), became a major higher education and research
institution in 1990. This status was awarded to it following a gradual awareness
on the part of the State, particularly after the volcanic crisis at the
Soufrière de Guadeloupe in 1976, of the need to have an institution in France
capable of possessing specific operational capacities that are guaranteed over
the long term, enabling it to acquire and make accessible to the community
high-level scientific data on the state of the three active volcanoes in France
and to be a reference scientific institution for the authorities and the French
government.
To fulfill its missions, IPGP is supported by a governance system that
integrates research, observation and teaching. Its status as a major
establishment enables it to rely on dedicated and secure means over the long
term to guarantee uninterrupted observation, rapid and continuous transmission
of observation data, their scientific interpretation at the highest level, and
very rapid reactivity in the event of a crisis.
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