Scientific production

Its leadership in research and innovation projects, the talent and rigour of its researchers and its network of cutting-edge facilities and equipment are the basis of the UPC's impressive positions in the main international scientific output rankings.

R&D Projects

A study by the UPC’s LAB shows that human-generated noise can deplete Posidonia populations

When exposed to human noise, specimens of the seagrass Posidonia reveal permanent and severe lesions in their sensory organs—whose function is to sense gravity—that threaten their survival. This is the main conclusion of a recent study by the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), entitled “Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise”, which was published in Nature Communications Biology.