by Cathrine Macort | Oct 31, 2020 | PRESS
October 31, 2020 The CCS Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) is continuing to track an entangled North Atlantic right whale identified as #3920, nicknamed Cottontail. Cottontail, an 11-year-old male, was found by the CCS aerial survey team on October 19,...
by Cathrine Macort | Oct 20, 2020 | Marine Debris, PRESS
October 20, 2020 While many research activities across the country have necessarily been restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic, beach debris cleanups are one of the few activities that can be conducted safely, as participants wear masks and gloves and can maintain...
by Cathrine Macort | Sep 23, 2020 | PRESS
Free online film festival and auction to support the oceans, research, education, outreach, and future disentanglements Provincetown, MA (September 23, 2020) – In response to the pandemic, the Center for Coastal Studies Provincetown has transformed its...
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...
