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Published on May 29, 2015

Agnès Helmstetter, researcher in geophysics at ISTerre, is honored in a special report " The young guard of Science" of the magazine "La Recherche".
This young seismologist is interested in trigger mechanisms of earthquakes and their hazards. In order to detect and understand the warning signs of a landslide, an avalanche or an underground collapse, she studies, interprets and maps all seismic data of such events. If statistical studies are conducted for ten years in this field, her work (…)

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Published on May 26, 2015

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Published on May 22, 2015

Alexander Sobolev and Peter Van der Beek, university professors at Joseph Fourier University and researchers at ISTerre, have been appointed senior members at the French Academic Institute (IUF)
Alexander Sobolev travaille sur la pétrologie et la géochimie du manteau terrestre. Il modélise la fusion et le transport du manteau, et étudie ses hétérogénéités en fonction des échelles de longueur, de temps et d’origine. Il utilise diverses méthodes analytiques in situ, afin de déchiffrer la (…)

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Published on May 18, 2015

Zakaria Ghazoui, PhD student at ISTerre, is the winner of the first ever Communicate Your Science Video Competition 2015. His video shows his investigation in Himalayan lakes using sediment cores. Competition website
Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné have also written an article about his expeditions in Himalaya (3 July 2015). Read the PDF

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Published on May 11, 2015

All our congratulations to our researchers Romain Brossier, Ludovic Métivier and Jean Virieux, and also Alessandra Ribodetti, Laure Combe and Stéphane Operto (University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Geoazur): their publication "Computationally efficient three-dimensional acoustic finite-difference frequency-domain seismic modeling in vertical transversely isotropic media with sparse direct solver" has been selected to SEG Honors & Awards 2015 (Society of Exploration Geophysicists).
This (…)

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Published on May 04, 2015

University Joseph Fourier is one of the best universities in the world in the 10 rankings per domain by QS World University Rankings 2015.
The britannic company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), specialized in information for students and yound professionals, published on 29 April 2015 on its website (Top Universities) its rankings per discipline : 36 rankings gathering 5 domains (Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life sciences & Medicine, Natural sciences, Social sciences (…)

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Published on April 28, 2015

Following the violent Mw 7.8- 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal saturday morning 25/04/2015 at 6:11 UTC (8:11 in France), a research committee has been established urgently in our laboratory. We will publish more information as soon as possible on our researches.
***Earthquake registration of the alpine stations The seismic signal was recorded by all the seismic stations of the Alps surveillance. The figures above show the movement detected by the seismic stations OGAG (…)

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Published on April 28, 2015

Des mesures géodésiques effectuées dans le Briançonnais depuis 1996 par une équipe française, menée par des chercheurs de l’ISTerre, permettent de quantifier les déplacements de cette région des Alpes. Les mouvements horizontaux sont associés aux mouvements des plaques Adriatique et Europe par le jeux des failles actives du Briançonnais, tandis que les mouvements verticaux sont en relation avec la dynamique des interactions entre lithosphère et manteau en profondeur. Ces travaux sont publiés (…)

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Published on April 24, 2015

Le plus petit spectromètre du monde est parvenu à mesurer d’infimes déformations de la croûte terrestre, de l’ordre d’un millimètre sur une longueur de mille kilomètres. Des chercheurs de l’Institut des sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) et de l’Institut de planétologie et d’astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) ont en effet utilisé le spectromètre SWIFTS [1] pour étudier ces mouvements encore mal connus. Ces travaux [2] sont publiés le 23 avril 2015 dans la revue Optica.

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Published on March 31, 2015

All our congratulations to André Revil that have been awarded the Nishida Prize for Promotion of Geoscience with the entry "Theoretical studies on coupled hydromechanical and electromagnetic phenomena in porous media and their applications to the geosciences".
Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) has created this year the "Nishida Prize for Promotion of Geoscience" to honor internationally recognized mid-level researchers under the age of 45. The prize is named for member Prof. Atsuhiro Nishida, (…)

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