May 7, 2025 | PRESS
To celebrate World Ocean Day, the Center for Coastal Studies and Payomet Performing Arts Center will host a special World Ocean Day Poetry Event at Payomet on Sunday, June 8, from 5 – 7 pm. The event, organized by Provincetown poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield,...
May 7, 2025 | PRESS
Last week, Director of the CCS Seafloor Mapping Program Mark Borrelli participated in a Codcast panel discussion at Provincetown’s Town Hall, “No man is an island: the collective climate challenge of coastal Massachusetts.” Mark was joined by Timothy Famulare,...
Apr 25, 2025 | PRESS
CCS Executive Director Anne-Marie Runfola delivers remarks on Massachusetts Right Whale Day at the New England Aquarium. BOSTON — In an effort to promote conservation of North Atlantic right whales, Governor Maura Healey declared April 24th as Massachusetts Right...
Apr 18, 2025 | PRESS
UPDATE, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1:30 PM: An additional North Atlantic right whale mother/calf pair was sighted in Cape Cod Bay by the CCS aerial observer team this morning, after the publication of this release. The whales were identified as EgNo 4150, Accordion, and the...
Apr 15, 2025 | PRESS
PROVINCETOWN, MA – The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Center for Coastal Studies is working to disentangle a North Atlantic right whale that has fishing gear caught in his mouth. The young whale, known as #5110, has been entangled since...
Apr 7, 2025 | PRESS
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) is offering three public events to mark Massachusetts Right Whale Day on Thursday, April 24. Whale Walk, 11 am – 12:30 pm The special events begin with a Whale Walk on Herring Cove Beach, an ideal spot from which to observe right...
Apr 2, 2025 | PRESS
Marine debris collected by the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) on Cape Cod and Boston Harbor shorelines, together with retired or recovered fishing gear known as ghost gear, are the media used by artists at three exhibits currently on display in Provincetown,...
Mar 31, 2025 | PRESS
The Center for Coastal Studies’ Marine Debris and Plastics Program will host students, teaching assistants and a professor from Cornell University for a week-long residency March 31 through April 5, 2025. The visit coincides with the program’s ghost gear removal...
Mar 21, 2025 | PRESS
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown, MA, will conduct surveys and removal of abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear, also known as “ghost gear,” during the North Atlantic right whale closure period in the Massachusetts Restricted Area in state...
Mar 17, 2025 | PRESS
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) today welcomed Anne-Marie Runfola as its new Executive Director. Her selection in November followed a lengthy, nationwide search. Runfola succeeds Richard Delaney, who is retiring as Executive Director after 17 years, and who will...
