May 14, 2016 | PRESS
May 14, 2016 Center for Coastal Studies frees young humpback whale from entanglement in Cape Cod Bay This afternoon the Center for Coastal Studies’ Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team disentangled a young humpback whale in Cape Cod Bay. The entanglement...
May 9, 2016 | PRESS
May 9, 2016 Last week, researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) prepared to report that a successful 2016 North Atlantic right whale season was winding down. During the period between December 2015 and May 2016 a total of more than a quarter of the...
Apr 29, 2016 | PRESS
April 26, 2016 Recent research cruises by the Center for Coastal Studies’ vessel and aircraft survey teams, working with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), have documented increasingly high concentrations of the plankton food of endangered North...
Apr 1, 2016 | PRESS
March 27, 2016 On Easter Day, researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies right whale aerial survey team spotted their first right whale calf of the year in Cape Cod Bay. This sighting heralds the arrival of the 2016 calves to their feeding grounds here in the...
Mar 2, 2016 | PRESS
February 25, 2016 The Center for Coastal Studies announces a series of celebrations in honor of its 40th year of conducting research, performing marine animal rescue operations, and offering education programs on Cape Cod Bay and beyond. On June 11th, a Gala Event...
Feb 22, 2016 | PRESS
The right whale aerial survey team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) observed nine right whales in Cape Cod Bay yesterday (February 21), marking the true beginning of the 2016 right whale season. CCS researchers have spotted individual right whales scattered...