by Cathrine Macort | Jul 31, 2020 | PRESS
On Monday, July 27, the Center for Coastal Studies Marine Animal Entanglement Response hotline (CCS MAER) received notification from the US Coast Guard of a whale in distress about ten miles east of the entrance to the harbor of New York City. The MAER team then spoke...
by Cathrine Macort | Jul 11, 2020 | PRESS
July 10, 2020 Statement by Dr Charles “Stormy” Mayo Director, CCS Right Whale Ecology Program With the recent listing by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) of the North Atlantic right whale as Critically Endangered on the Red List of...
by Cathrine Macort | Jul 11, 2020 | PRESS
Friday, June 26 Shortly before 1 pm on Thursday, June 25, researchers at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) were notified about a dead whale sighted off New Jersey. The CCS Right Whale Ecology Program was conducting an aerial survey in the New York Bight at the time...
by Cathrine Macort | Jun 8, 2020 | PRESS
June 8, 2020 Today is World Oceans Day, a time celebrate our beautiful blue planet and commit to becoming better stewards of the marine environment. This year’s theme, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean, describes precisely the approach we take here at the Center for...
by Cathrine Macort | Jun 4, 2020 | PRESS
June 4, 2020 Staff from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team disentangled a humpback whale 15 miles east of Cape Cod yesterday. This is the second time the young whale, identified as the 2015 calf of Jabiru, has been...
by Cathrine Macort | May 7, 2020 | PRESS
On Wednesday, May 5, a blue whale was sighted just 13 nautical miles east of Truro by the Center for Coastal Studies Right Whale Aerial Surveillance team. Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are the largest animal ever known to have lived, growing up to 100 ft in...
