Mar 15, 2024 | Marine Debris, PRESS
My name is Wilson Haims and I am the 2024 Joanna Toole Intern at the Center for Coastal Studies through the Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative. I look forward to spending the next three months working with the CCS Marine Debris Program to recover lost or...
Jul 8, 2023 | Marine Debris
By Laura Ludwig, Manager, CCS Marine Debris and Plastics Program. I don’t really remember when I first cleaned a shoreline, but these days I do it so frequently that I sometimes forget to reflect on where I just went, how beautiful it was on location, and how...
Jan 6, 2023 | Marine Debris
By Kathryn Brooks I came to CCS in January to be the new “Marine Debris & Plastics Research and Outreach Assistant” for Laura and her program. My position was funded by multiple grants and would end in December. Well, somehow the year has flown by and it is now...
Jun 27, 2022 | Marine Debris, PRESS
By Kathryn Brooks CCS Marine Debris Program Assistant Perseverance and determination. If at first you don’t succeed, take a look at what you did, get feedback from others, and make adjustments. My first week of the “Early Bird” cleanups was unsuccessful. I was at...
May 27, 2022 | Marine Debris
The Center for Coastal Studies and its dedicated volunteer Beach Brigade have been hard at work over the past month removing marine debris from Cape Cod shorelines and tabulating data related to it. During an April 22 Earth Day cleanup at Wood End in Provincetown, 35...
May 11, 2022 | Marine Debris
Photo caption: Fiona aboard the F/V Miss Lilly on the first day of the CCS 2022 Ghost Gear Recovery Project out of Provincetown, MA. (Annie Lewandowski) May 11, 2022. Fiona Skeggs is a graduate student in the health, science and environmental journalism program...
