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The Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics is located in La Jolla, and is a Division of SIO.

Recent News

Green Foundation-supported OBS in transit to EPR

Check out the recent photo from RV Thompson, which is on its way to 9°50'N East Pacific Rise.  Captured in the picture are four Green Foundation-supported short period ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS), equipped with Nanometrics dataloggers. The equipment will be recovered in the Fall.  We look forward to reviewing the data they gather this trip.

Image credit: Chris Armerding, IGPP

Miles Collection at IGPP

Recent IGPP graduate earns GJI’s Student Author award

Huge congratulations to recent IGPP graduate Kyle Gwirtz who just won GJI’s Student Author award for his paper on Earth’s magnetic field reversals with advisor Matti Morzfeld and colleagues at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Parnell-Turner featured in Wavelengths

Scripps Institution of Oceanography's most recent Wavelengths (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSjy6Q-_Ll8&feature=youtu.be) features Ross Parnell-Turner.,Gorgeous footage will transport you to the axial volcanic trough as you learn about Ross Parnell's efforts to observe seafloor creation in real-time.

Walter Munk Guyot named

It’s official: Walter Munk will forever be a part of the seascape! 

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