Thanksgiving to Mark the 40th Anniversary of the Disentanglement of Ibis, the First Rescue of an Entangled Whale by the Center for Coastal Studies
The following was recently published in the current issue of Coastwatch, the Center for Coastal Studies’ annual publication: Forty years ago, on Thanksgiving Day, 1984, Charles “Stormy” Mayo and David Mattila of the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS)...
Center for Coastal Studies Researchers Make Season’s First Sighting of North Atlantic Right Whales in Cape Cod Bay
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...
Anne-Marie Runfola Selected to Lead Center for Coastal Studies
The Board of Directors of the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown has announced the selection of Anne-Marie Runfola to lead the Center as Executive Director. The decision follows a lengthy, nationwide search. Runfola will succeed Richard Delaney, who is...
A Marine Debris Diary: Adventure Cleanup on the Boston Harbor Islands
A blog post by Fritz McGirr, Marine Debris Operations Assistant Situated between seven and nine miles out into the harbor from Boston’s city center lie five of the 34 islands making up the Boston Harbor Islands. These five outer islands take the brunt of the wind and...
Gulf Stream Orphans Arrive in Cape Cod Waters
Can baby tropical fish, Gulf Stream orphans, tell us about what’s going on off Cape Cod’s shores? Owen Nichols, Director of the CCS Marine Fisheries Research Program, weighs in on the possible implications in this short video, “Little Lost Tropical...
Researchers Seek to Unlock the Secrets of Duck Harbor in Wellfleet
Over the millennia, Duck Harbor in Wellfleet has been a marsh, a harbor, and a forest. After an ongoing series of naturally occurring overwashes, it’s now turning back into a marsh. Researchers at the Center for Coastal Studies are looking to Duck Harbor to better...
Federal, State, and NGO Agencies Partner on ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Cleanup of Boston Harbor Islands
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Center for Coastal Studies, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Boston Harbor Now form Public-Private Partnership to Lead Cleanup of Marine Debris at Five Harbor Islands In a landmark...
Center for Coastal Studies Announces September-October 2024 Marine Debris Activities
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) will host several marine debris cleanup opportunities in September and October. Volunteers are invited to join shoreline cleanups on Cape Cod and in Boston and to participate in the debris data collection and documentation. BOSTON...