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

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

The Valdovinos lab was recently awarded the NSF grant: “BoCP-Design: Developing network-based models to evaluate functional biodiversity...

The goal of this project is to develop an interdisciplinary framework to study the sustainability of marine ecosystems in Chile and...

The goal of this project is to advance network models of marine ecosystems by including the influxes of primary productivity generated by...