Rare North Atlantic right whales return to Cape Cod Bay

Provincetown, MA – On Tuesday, January 16 the Center for Coastal Studies’ aerial survey team took off from Provincetown airport for the first right whale surveillance flight of the 2018 season; within hours they had spotted 14 of the critically endangered...

New Study Shows Humpback Whale Numbers Increasing In NY Harbor

December 2, 2017 Humpback whales are not only making a splash along the beaches of Long Island and New Jersey; they have also been sighted inside New York harbor. A recent study found that humpback whale numbers are increasing inside the New York-New Jersey harbor...

Martha’s Vineyard partners free entangled leatherback

On Sunday October 1, the Center for Coastal Studies Emergency Hotline received a report of an entangled leatherback turtle gear off Cuttyhunk. CCS contacted our partners on Martha’s Vineyard, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah Natural Resources Department;...

CCS MAER team frees entangled humpback whale off Truro, MA

September 12, 2017 The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale today off Ballston Beach, Truro. The MAER team and scientists from the Center’s Humpback Whale Studies Program were...