Anne-Marie Runfola Takes Helm at Center for Coastal Studies
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) today welcomed Anne-Marie Runfola as its new Executive Director. Her selection in November followed a lengthy, nationwide search. Runfola succeeds Richard Delaney, who is retiring as Executive Director after 17 years, and who will...
Seasons’ first North Atlantic right whale mother and calf observed in Cape Cod Bay
Aerial observers from the Center for Coastal Studies today observed a North Atlantic right whale mother with her calf in Cape Cod Bay, approximately five miles west of Great Island, Wellfleet. This is the first such sighting of a right whale calf in Massachusetts...
Dr. Michelle Fournet to Discuss Bioacoustics in Marine Mammal Research
The Napi’s Winter Lecture Series concludes on Wednesday, March 19 at 5 pm with Dr. Michelle Fournet of the University of New Hampshire who will deliver a talk titled “Ecology with our eyes shut: using bioacoustics to better understand marine mammal behavior and...
With New Tools, CCS Leads Global Efforts to Conserve Seagrass
March 1st is World Seagrass Day, but in an office of the geology department at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown, it might be argued that every day is World Seagrass Day. Called the “forgotten ecosystem,” seagrass is a vital natural resource that...