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Safety and Survival Training by Fishing Partnership at SMAST

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On Thursday, October 16, 2025, I attended the Fishermen Safety and Survival Training conducted by SMAST and Fishing Partnership Support Services (FPSS) at New Bedford’s…

2025 ICES Annual Science Conference, Klaipėda

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Between September 15-18, Gavin, Kam and Sophie attended the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 2025 Annual Science Conference in Klaipėda…

Kamran Walsh and Sophie Wulfing

Learning from our summer interns

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This summer, the Fay Lab had the opportunity to mentor three interns from New Bedford High School. They worked closely with Kam, Sophie, and Sarah to help progress current…

Sophie Wulfing and Kamran Walsh

Floundering around in Virginia - DISES annual project meeting

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Gavin, Kam, and I (Sophie) traveled to Hampton, VA in May to join the first annual project team meeting for our NSF Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environment Systems (DISES)…

ARROW - Summer Education Accelerator (SEA)

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At the end of May, the Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW) held its first Summer Education Accelerator (SEA) workshop at the University…

Community engaged teaching and learning fellowship

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I (Gavin) joined the university’s community engaged teaching and learning faculty fellowship program in September 2024. A two year program run by the Leduc Center for Civic…

Conversations with recreational fishers about fisheries science

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This past fall, PhD student Kamran Walsh (me) teamed up with He Lab Master’s student Kevin Bennett to interview recreational fishers throughout the southern New England…

A new era for lab updates, and a look back on 2024

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Kamran Walsh, with contributions by Gavin Fay

Kamran Walsh, Gavin Fay