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faculty
Gavin Fay, PhD
Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
Contact
508-910-6363
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School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 228
Education
2012 | University of Washington | PhD |
2004 | University of Washington | MS |
2000 | University of Stirling | BSc |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Research
Research activities
- Evaluating the performance of ecosystem-based fisheries management strategies
- Stock assessment statistical methods development
- Simulation testing of management, monitoring, and assessment procedures
- Social-ecological ecosystem modeling and indicators for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
- Testing decision support tools for living marine resource management
Research
Research awards
- $ 345,395 awarded by MID-ATLANTIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL for Developing Climate-ready Updates to the Essential Fish Habitat Source Documents in the Northeast
- $ 353,016 awarded by VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY for DISES: Dynamics of Socio-environmental Factors Driving Resilience of Coastal Fisheries
- $ 149,080 awarded by WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION for CINAR Postdoctoral Scholar Program in Stock Assessment and Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management, Climat & Ecosystems, & Ecosystem Observing
- $ 156,761 awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MAINE for NCLIM: Northeast U.S. Climate Integrated Modeling Initiative to Meet Ocean Decision Challenges
- $ 297,220 awarded by Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for Ocean Observing, Modeling, and Management for Offshore Wind Certificate Program
Select publications
- Fay, G., G. DePiper, S. Steinback, R.J. Gamble, J.S. Link (2019).
Economic and ecosystem effects of fishing on the Northeast US shelf
Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:133, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.0. - Fay, G., J.S. Link, J.A. Hare (2017).
Assessing the effects of ocean acidification in the Northeast US using an end-to-end marine ecosystem model
Ecological Modelling, 347, 1-10. - Fay, G., J.S. Link, S.I. Large, and R.J. Gamble (2015).
Management performance of ecological indicators in the Georges Bank finfish fishery
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72, 1285-1296.