Environment Network (UPEN)

The University of Portsmouth Environment Network (UPEN) is comprised of 100+ members of staff, who represent all five faculties from within the University.

Examples of research excellence and teaching include:

Antidepressants make shrimps see the light

Rising levels of antidepressants in coastal waters could change sea-life behaviour and potentially damage the food-chain...more

Biofuel future emerges from Seafarers’ scourge

Scientists at the university have helped to discover that the digestive system of a marine gribble contains enzymes which could convert wood and straw into liquid biofuels... more

Climate driven storms affect North Sea productivity

A team from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research group has been investigating the link between nutrients – the basis for life in the oceans – and major storm events...more

Major housing development adds cleaner water to local rivers

The Environmental Technology Research Group has helped develop a system that sustainably ‘treats’ water to such an effect, that it is cleaner than the river it drains into...more 

Nurturing UniverCities – architect helps university lead the way

The seeds of a big idea which could change the face of the city and the diets of residents have been sown at the University of Portsmouth...more

Practice what you preach: our carbon reduction plan

This year the University has been accepted onto the Carbon Trust’s HE Carbon Management Programme. This ten month programme will result in the publication of a fully endorsed carbon management plan and will lead the University into a new decade of carbon reduction...more

Students informed directly by research

Our research and professional activities directly inform our teaching – two examples of many are the MSc courses in Coastal and Marine Resource Management and Applied Aquatic Biology...more