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Personal Statement
I joined the faculty staff of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 2007 and was appointed senior lecturer in Marine Resource Modelling in 2014. I am also the departmental Director of Knowledge Exchange, responsible for helping colleagues develop KE activities such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Continuous Professional Development, and consultancy. My research involves developing computationally efficient population models of fish stocks in which physiological structure and spatial structure and combined, and I have strong track record of widely cited peer-reviewed publications (average of 24 citations per article, three papers with >100 citations). My research on spatial modelling of zooplankton, as part of the NERC MarProd programme, established a new to modelling the growth and transport by ocean currents of stage-structured populations (e.g. Speirs et al. 2006, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 313, 173-192). With partners at Marine Scotland Science I led the development of a new size-structured multispecies model for fish communities (Speirs et al. 2010, Fish. Res. 106, 474-494), now known as FishSUMS (Fish – Strathclyde University – Marine Scotland). Motivated by policy-driven concerns about the effects of multi-species fisheries, the model has been used to explore the consequences of a range of fisheries management scenarios. Over the last seven years I have been PI or Co-I in grants totalling over £1.3 million FEC. I am an editor for Ecology and the Journal of Biological Systems, and I sit on steering groups of the Strathclyde Marine Institute and the Centre for Mathematics Applied to the Life Sciences (CMALS). I am deputy convener of the MASTS Fisheries Forum, a group that has representation from all major fisheries related institutes in Scotland, and covers diverse disciplines including biology, stock assessment, ecosystem modelling, economics, and stakeholder experience.
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Projects
Doctoral Training Grant - Scottish Universities Partnership for Environmental Research (SUPER)
NERC (Natural Environment Research Council)
1/10/19 → 30/09/27
Project: Research - Studentship
MEESO - Ecologically and Economically Sustainable Mesopelagic Fisheries
European Commission - Horizon 2020
1/09/19 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
Research Output
The effect of viral plasticity on the persistence of host-virus systems
Choua, M., Heath, M. R., Speirs, D. C. & Bonachela, J. A., 22 Apr 2020, In : Journal of Theoretical Biology. 498, 12 p., 110263.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Population density and temperature correlate with long-term trends in somatic growth rates and maturation schedules of herring and sprat
Hunter, A., Speirs, D. C. & Heath, M. R., 6 Mar 2019, In : PLOS One. 14, 3, 22 p., e0212176.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Datasets
A synthetic map of the northwest European Shelf sedimentary environment for applications in marine science
Wilson, R. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 7 Aug 2017
DOI: 10.15129/07bc686e-a354-40de-8c08-372ced7aad64
Dataset
Improved understanding of population, community and ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification.
Speirs, D. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 2014
http://www.mathstat.strath.ac.uk/outreach/e2e
Dataset
Thesis
A unified population model of Calanus finmarchicus and C. helgolandicus in the North Atlantic
Author: Wilson, R., 13 Oct 2015Supervisor: Speirs, D. (Supervisor) & Heath, M. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Length-structured approach to fisheries stock assessment
Author: Bakhshi, A., 2 Jun 2017Supervisor: Speirs, D. (Supervisor) & Heath, M. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Activities
5th International Zooplankton Production Symposium in Pucon
Douglas Speirs (Invited speaker)Mar 2011
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
University of Glasgow, DEEB seminar “Cod in a web: modelling multi-species length-structured interactions in a North Sea fish community”, 2nd December 2009.
Douglas Speirs (Invited speaker)2009
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk