Seminar: Louise Firth, University College Cork
Join us on Thursday, June 18 at 2:00pm for our Stone Living Lab Seminar featuring Dr. Louise Firth to learn about living seawalls in Ireland.
For National Ocean Month, the Stone Living Lab seminar will feature Dr. Louise Firth, Senior Lecturer at University College Cork who will share insights from her work on the Living Seawalls in Cork and Plymouth in Ireland. Join us on June 18 at 2:00pm ET for this virtual seminar to learn about how living seawalls have integrated nature, art, and learning to benefit built coastal ecosystems.
Louise is a marine ecologist exploring how humans and coastal ecosystems shape one another, across both natural and built environments. Her work blends marine community ecology with historical perspectives, and is increasingly multidisciplinary, bringing together engineers, artists, and historians to rethink how we make space for nature in human-dominated coastlines. She focuses on developing practical eco-engineering and nature-based solutions to support biodiversity in a changing world. With over 25 years of international experience across Ireland, the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Malaysia and South Africa, Louise still has a soft spot for the humble limpet, her favorite species and a small but powerful reminder of resilience at the edge of land and sea.