Center for Coastal Studies

The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) is an independent nonprofit that conducts collaborative, field-based research to understand and protect marine ecosystems and coastal environments, with emphasis on marine mammals in the western North Atlantic and habitats of the Gulf of Maine. It also advances conservation through public education and policy work, monitors coastal ecosystem health, studies whales and marine processes, and carries out field rescues of entangled whales and sea turtles.