Oct 15, 2020 | Marine Debris, PRESS
October 15, 2020Jenna Schwerzmann, Joanna Toole Intern The Marine Debris and Plastics Program has been documenting this year’s debris removals, despite the challenges that the pandemic has created. While some CCS staff worked hard to retrieve tons of lost fishing gear...
Oct 10, 2020 | Marine Debris
September 30, 2020Amy Green, Marine Debris Intern, Summer 2020 Plastic Free July 2020: wake up, coffee, Facebook post, Instagram story post, then on to the workday. As a Center for Coastal Studies Marine Debris intern, I had the opportunity to share ideas on reducing...
Oct 10, 2020 | Marine Debris, PRESS
August 30, 2020Amy Green, Marine Debris Intern, Summer 2020 I still remember the first time I saw the ocean. I was nine years old, and my jaw dropped as I stared out at the endless horizon. Growing up in Minneapolis, lakes surrounded us, but the closest I had come to...
Jun 24, 2020 | Marine Debris, PRESS
June 15, 2020Laura Ludwig, Project Manager, Co-Principal Investigator When the pandemic settled in for good in mid-March, the ghost gear field work was just ramping up. Side scan sonar surveys had begun in February, and collaborating fishermen were readying their...
Apr 18, 2020 | Marine Debris, PRESS
Day One – Field Work March 11, 2020 – Owen Nichols, Director, Marine Fisheries Research; Co-Principal Investigator The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS), accompanied by Wellfleet Shellfish Department staff, conducted a side-scan sonar survey in Wellfleet Harbor on...
Apr 1, 2020 | Marine Debris
January 16, 2020 – DAY ZERO Caroline Howlett, Research Documentation Ed. Note: On January 16, 2020, the Center for Coastal Studies hosted a meeting for all participants in the NFWF Fishing for Energy project called “Removing and Intercepting DFG [derelict fishing...
