The Cape Lab

07/10/2024

The Cape Lab's Agnes Mittermayr on worms, Wellfleet and warming waters. Read more in the link below!

Dr. Agnes Mittermayr of Austria has Found a Home on the Wellfleet Flats

05/27/2024

The Cape Lab's Mark Borrelli on coastal erosion and managed retreat in an Boston Globe op-ed

Along the outer beaches of Cape Cod the erosion rate is about 3 feet per year, but if the region is hit by a big storm, shorelines can lose up to 30 feet in one day.

05/23/2024

On behalf of our co-authors, we would like to thank the folks at Remote Sensing for selecting our article: Absolute Localization of Targets Using a Phase-Measuring Sidescan Sonar in Very Shallow Waters, as an Editor’s Choice article. It is a great honor!

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/6/1626

Please do see all the other Editor’s Choices Articles as well
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/editors_choice

The detection, classification, and localization of targets or features on the seafloor in acoustic data are critical to many disciplines. This is most important in cases where human safety is in jeopardy, such as hazards to navigation, mitigation of mine countermeasures, or unexploded ordnance. This...

02/14/2024

Happy Valentine's Day!

12/28/2023

Are you ready to plunge! Let the cold knock 2023 out of you!

What are you doing New Year's Day? There's still time to register for the Provincetown Polar Plunge! Meet at Johnson Street Parking Lot, Provincetown, Monday, Jan 1, at 11 AM. Proceeds support the Center for Coastal Studies.

To learn more and register: https://www.trisignup.com/Race/MA/Provincetown/PtownPolarPlunge?fbclid=IwAR3pf3oqRi8jmuiKDqANcQKk9oSTHVRvARmv3VR_PtgqKQxsr19ZXlajV1Q

12/22/2023

Happy holidays everyone ⛄

Happy Holidays from all of us at the Center for Coastal Studies! We look forward to sharing more news and events in 2024!

11/21/2023

The Duck Harbor over-wash - our spit of sand is changing
Featuring the Cape Lab's Katie Castagno and drone footage by Dan Solazzo!

This video includes closed captions, when enabled. Access this What's Up with Duck Harbor with spoken audio here:Friends of Herring River is pleased to prese...

11/19/2023

It's that time of year again

Register by December 10th to guarantee you and your team a shirt on plunge day!

Otherwise we have to guess!

The 2024 Provincetown Polar Bear Plunge is on Monday January 1, 2024. It includes the following events: Single Registration and Team Registration.

10/23/2023

Mindy Todd is revisiting a conversation with Graham Giese and Mark Adams on The Point today. Tune in at 9AM to listen to the Cape Lab's dynamic duo talk about coastal geology!

CAI's award-winning public affairs program. Monday through Thursday, Mindy Todd hosts a lively and informative discussion on critical issues for Cape Cod, the Islands and the South Coast. Every Friday is the News Roundup, as CAI News Director Steve Junker speaks with news editors and reporters from....

10/17/2023

This summer we were honored to have Provincetown Art Association and Museum's Amy Davies accompany us doing fieldwork in the Provincetown eelgrass beds!
Watch Amy's beautiful documentary "moments of light and color" below and head over to PAAM's youtube channel for more (https://www.youtube.com/c/paam1914)

https://youtu.be/ZDNrWbG6tS4

The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is a nationally recognized, year-round cultural institution that fuses the creative energy of America’s ol...

09/18/2023

***UPDATE***

This is an aeolian sediment trap! We deployed these high tech traps (constructed from an ice cream containter, duct tape, and pantyhose) to collect wind-blown sand to better understand how sediment is transported during storms at Duck Harbor. We also captured timelapse video of the overwash using the trail camera you see here.

Post storm gear retrieval in Duck Harbor.
What are we looking at here? Wrong answers only!