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Gavin Fay

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Gavin Fay, PhD

Associate Professor

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography

Fisheries & Ecosystem Management Lab Website

Contact

508-910-6363

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School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 228

Education

2012University of WashingtonPhD
2004University of WashingtonMS
2000University of StirlingBSc

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.
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