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
- Engineering and Applied Science PhD
- Intercampus Marine Science Programs MS, PhD
- Marine Science and Technology MS
- Marine Science and Technology PhD
- University of São Paulo Dual PhD PhD
Teaching
Courses
Practice and development of skills for communicating scientific research to a diverse set of audiences. This course is for students in the sciences interested in applications of their research to management and policy, focusing on the importance of defining the `so what¿ of research and adapting messaging to specific audiences, using storytelling techniques to produce compelling presentations of scientific research.
Practice and development of skills for communicating scientific research to a diverse set of audiences. This course is for students in the sciences interested in applications of their research to management and policy, focusing on the importance of defining the `so what¿ of research and adapting messaging to specific audiences, using storytelling techniques to produce compelling presentations of scientific research.
Practice and development of skills for communicating scientific research to a diverse set of audiences. This course is for students in the sciences interested in applications of their research to management and policy, focusing on the importance of defining the `so what¿ of research and adapting messaging to specific audiences, using storytelling techniques to produce compelling presentations of scientific research.
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
- $ 297,220 awarded by Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for Ocean Observing, Modeling, and Management for Offshore Wind Certificate Program
- $ 87,240 awarded by Virginia Institue of Marine Science for Age-length Structured Assessment Modeling for US Atlantic Sea Scallop Using Stock Synthesis
- $ 34,806 awarded by Nature Conservancy for Supporting the FishPath Implementation and Fisheries Science Capacity Building
- $ 376,392 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST IV: Applications of Machine Learning to Develop Statistical Emulators for Complex Spatial Marine Ecosystem Models for Improved Management Decision-making
- $ 159,189 awarded by New England Fishery Management Council for Prototype Management Strategy Evaluation for Georges Bank Ecosystem-Based Fishery
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.