Jan 26, 2016 | PRESS
January 26, 2015: This weekend sees the release of the movie “The Finest Hours”, a dramatization of the wreck of the SS Pendleton off Cape Cod in February 1952 and the subsequent rescue mission by the USCG. The Pendleton was en route from New Orleans to Boston when in...
Jan 8, 2016 | PRESS
On Thursday January 7, 2016 an aerial survey team from the Center for Coastal Studies’ Right Whale Ecology program in Provincetown spotted two rare and critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, just north of Dennis. This is the first confirmed...
Dec 12, 2015 | PRESS
Final draft of COP21 Climate Change Agreement released just after 9 am EST on December 12, 2016. Richard Delaney, President and CEO of the Center for Coastal Studies, notes “It is a pretty ambitious agreement and there is an upbeat mood in the convention hall...
Dec 4, 2015 | PRESS
On Friday, December 4, the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale in Cape Cod Bay. The crew of a tug and tow reported the entanglement to the MAER hotline then stood by...
Nov 24, 2015 | PRESS
The latest joint Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) and International Whaling Commission (IWC) entanglement training workshop has just finished in Oman, and has registered a number of significant ‘firsts’. This was the first entanglement workshop on the Arabian Sea...
Oct 31, 2015 | PRESS
October 31, 2015 The Center for Coastal Studies Marine Animal Entanglement Response team, with the US Coast Guard and Truro Harbor Master, disentangled a 4.5 foot long leatherback sea turtle today off Pamet Harbor, Cape Cod Bay. The turtle sustained relatively minor...
