• Tenth Annual Great Beach Cleanup and Trash Tally

    On October 17-20, 2025, the Center for Coastal Studies will host its 10th annual GREAT BEACH CLEANUP.  This cleanup takes place on four consecutive days, Friday through Monday, beginning at […]

  • Wellfleet OysterFest

    Visit the CCS tent on Main Street in Wellfleet at the Wellfleet OysterFest. Started back in 2001, OysterFest is a 2-day party that pulses with everything that makes life in […]

  • Chatham’s Oktoberfest

    Kate Gould Park 15 Chatham Bars Avenue, Chatham, MA, United States

    Join us for one of the Lower Cape’s most anticipated fall traditions! Chatham’s Oktoberfest is back and bigger than ever, offering fun for the whole family and entertainment for all […]

  • Talk at the Commons: Indigenous Relationships with the Land

    The Commons 46 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA, United States

    Hartman Deetz had the honor of revisiting one of his grandfather James Deetz's archaeological 1960s digs as a Tribal Historic Preservation monitor. In his grandfather's excavation, a 17th century inn […]

  • Friends of Bass River Save our River Symposium

    Cultural Center of Cape Cod 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA, United States

    Join local experts, advocates, and neighbors at the Save Our River Symposium on Friday, October 24 at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. We’ll unveil the Route 28 Bridge construction timeline, update our members on Upper Bass […]

  • Guided Walk, “Indigenous Relationships with the Land”

    Pilgrim Heights

    Walk alongside Brad Lopes, an Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen and Program Manager of the Native American Teacher Retention Initiative (NATRI), and Callyan Lacio, a Cherokee Nation citizen and PhD student at […]

  • Beach cleanup on Marsh Island, Fairhaven

    Marsh Island, Fairhaven

    Marsh Island, Fairhaven, November 1, 2, 4, 5 In a massive collaboration between the CCS Beach Brigade, Operation Clean Sweep, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Fairhaven-Acushnet Land Preservation Trust and the municipalities […]

  • Martha’s Vineyard Spinnaker Talk by Jesse Mechling

    Katharine Cornell Theatre 51 Spring Street, Vineyard Haven, MA, United States

    The Vineyard Haven Public Library is pleased to welcome Jesse Mechling, Director of Marine Education at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, for a presentation on Spinnaker–an 11-year-old humpback […]