Peddocks Island 2025 Cleanup – A Transformative Experience
Blog post by Tony LaCasse From September 14 -17, 2025, twenty-eight members of the Center for Coastal Studies Beach Brigade collaborated with the Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation on an “adventure cleanup” of Peddocks Island in Boston...
International Trainees Complete Disentanglement Apprenticeships at CCS
Earlier this month, two trainees from Colombia and Perú became the latest to complete apprenticeships under the Global Whale Entanglement Response Network (GWERN) at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown. This follows a Perú-hosted GWERN training...
Volunteers Make a Difference in Wellfleet Bay
Tanned from a summer of volunteer work on the water, and wearing Center for Coastal Studies T-shirts and zip-up sweatshirts, Barbara Brennessel and Nick Picariello meet Jenn Burkhardt, a researcher from the Center’s Water Quality Monitoring Program, at the dock in...
Center for Coastal Studies Announces September-October 2025 Marine Debris Activities
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) will host several marine debris cleanup opportunities in September and October. Volunteers are invited to join shoreline cleanups on Cape Cod and in Boston and to participate in the debris data collection and documentation. BOSTON...