Dr. Macarena Valiñas is the new Director of EFPU
The Playa Unión Foundation appointed Dr. Valiñas as Director of EFPU. Macarena obtained her Doctorate in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, and is a CONICET researcher with workplace at the EFPU since 2011. Her line of research is related to the effects of global change variables in base organisms – plankton, invertebrates and macroalgae (and their interactions) of food webs of Patagonian coastal environments.
Dr. Walter Helbling is now the Vice-Director of the EFPU.