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Center for Coastal Studies Researchers Make Season’s First Sighting of North Atlantic Right Whales in Cape Cod Bay

Center for Coastal Studies Researchers Make Season’s First Sighting of North Atlantic Right Whales in Cape Cod Bay

Nov 19, 2024 | PRESS

PROVINCETOWN, MA – During an aerial survey yesterday, Monday, Nov. 18, scientists from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Right Whale Ecology Program observed two endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay. It is the first such sighting of the 2024-2025...
Mutation rates in whales are much higher than previously reported; Estimate lowers the pre-exploitation number of North Atlantic humpback whales by 86 percent

Mutation rates in whales are much higher than previously reported; Estimate lowers the pre-exploitation number of North Atlantic humpback whales by 86 percent

Sep 1, 2023 | PRESS

An international team of marine scientists, led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Center for Coastal Studies in the USA, has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate their mutation rates. The results...
Humpback Whales That Visit New York, New Jersey Stay Longer and Visit Again

Humpback Whales That Visit New York, New Jersey Stay Longer and Visit Again

Aug 3, 2022 | PRESS

Researchers analyze humpback whales in New York Bight Apex area over seven years Humpback whales spotted along the Jersey Shore and the waters off New York often stay for an extended period of time and return year after year, according to a study co-authored by...
CCS Receives Massachusetts Environmental Trust Grants for Whale and Sea Turtle Research and Conservation

CCS Receives Massachusetts Environmental Trust Grants for Whale and Sea Turtle Research and Conservation

May 28, 2022 | PRESS

PROVINCETOWN: The Center for Coastal Studies received two Massachusetts grants from the sales of the state’s aquatic-themed specialty license plates which will help the Center fund North Atlantic Right Whale research and continue its commitment to the conservation of...
Current global warming may affect the Earth’s oceans for many millennia to come

Current global warming may affect the Earth’s oceans for many millennia to come

Feb 2, 2022 | PRESS

A group of marine scientists from around the world, led by Dr. Per Palsbøll of the University of Groningen, looked to the past in order to understand how the long-term impacts from today’s global warming might impact baleen whale populations. Perhaps the most...
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