Meet our new Research Technician Coleman Cormier
Coleman graduated from the University Massachusetts Amherst in 2023, with a B.S. in Environmental Science, with a focus on Fisheries Management and a minor in Natural Resource Conservation. While in college, he worked in the lobster industry in Kittery, Maine, where his interest in marine sciences and the commercial fishing industry broadened...
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New publications on black sea bass, sea turtles, and red snapper from our Research Team!
The first deployments of pop‐up satellite archival tags on black sea bass (Centropristis striata)
Investigating leatherback surface behavior using a novel tag design and machine learning
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Meet our 2024 Legal Intern Victoria Kvilhaug
Victoria Kvilhaug is the legal intern for Coonamessett Farm Foundation, Inc. for the summer of 2024. Victoria graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. As an undergraduate student, Victoria worked in a research laboratory studying the coloration and ultraviolet reflectiveness of Tanager birds. She used software to create 3D models of the Tanager birds from 360° photographs of the specimens.
Following graduation from UMass Amherst, Victoria enrolled in law school at the University of Massachusetts School of Law in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It was through her experience as an undergraduate researcher that Victoria learned the importance of intellectual property and patent law in scientific research and developed an interest in pursuing these fields in law school...
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Shearwater Bycatch Reduction
CFF is leading a collaborative research and outreach project to evaluate and promote modifications of baiting practices in the dogfish gillnet fishery with members of the Cape Cod commercial fishing community. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill had a large impact on great shearwaters and other seabird species, and reducing incidental mortality experienced at sea can help restore these injured species...
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