PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts, June 14 (TNSRes) -- The Center for Coastal Studies issued the following news release: Yesterday the Center for Coastal Studies received word that a local lobster diver, Michael Packard, had been injured in an interaction with a humpback whale in the waters off Provincetown. The Center's Humpback Whale Studies Program is home to a long-term study of humpbacks off Cape Cod and the greater Gulf of Maine. Dr. Jooke Robbins directs this research, which is one of the mos  more

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, June 18 (TNSRes) -- St. Francis Xavier University issued the following news release: Spending the summer months immersed in research work is an exciting opportunity to learn and also contribute to new knowledge, say the eight student recipients of the Irving Research Mentorship award at StFX. The students, Fiona Amos, Jocelyne LeBlanc, Sam Poirier, Elise Collet, Ethan Draper, Ken Matheson, Annie Chadwick and Abbie Benjamin, have each received $7,000 and will spend 16   more