News & Updates

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Global Collaboration Led by Dr. Fernanda Valdovinos Awarded $1.5M HFSP Grant to Model Climate Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

We are thrilled to announce that a pioneering international research team, led by Dr. Fernanda Valdovinos (UC Davis), has been awarded a highly prestigious Research Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). The project, titled "Across-Scale Ecological and Evolutionary Responses of Major Upwelling Ecosystems to Climate Change", will receive $500,000 annually over three years. The award is a massive achievement, standing out as one of only 28 funded projects selecte

May 1

Chasing Tides and Temperatures: Pre-Workshop Fieldwork Along the South African Coast

Before convening in the seminar rooms of Stellenbosch University for the International Workshop on Food Web Dynamics, our international team of researchers hit the rugged South African coastline. From December 4th to 7th, 2025, researchers from Portugal, South Africa, and the US embarked on an intensive, multi-stop fieldwork expedition to collect critical environmental data and deploy specialized temperature loggers across some of the world's most iconic capes. Here is a look

Apr 30

Dr. Fernanda Valdovinos Presents on Marine Food Web Sustainability at NITheCS Colloquium

On December 8, 2025, Dr. Fernanda Valdovinos (UC Davis) delivered a featured colloquium address at the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, titled, "Modelling marine food webs to study their sustainability in a changing world." As a theoretical ecologist and network scientist, Dr. Valdovinos presented an integrated network approach to evaluating how marine ecosystems respond to both environmental s

Apr 27

International Workshop on Food Web Dynamics and Climate Change in Global Upwelling Systems (Dec 8-12, 2025, South Africa)

From December 8–12, 2025, the Valdovinos Lab, in collaboration with Cang Hui at the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) at Stellenbosch University, organized and hosted this intensive one-week collaborative event. It convened leading minds in network ecology, oceanography, thermal physiology, and genomics to tackle a pressing ecological imperative: predicting and managing marine ecosystem responses to a rapidly warming climate. The Geograph

Apr 27