Exploring Boston Harbor Boston's Blue & Green Spaces
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2025 Resources
2024 Resources
Workshop Agenda
watch recordings of the lightning talks below!
Session 1: Reaching Diverse Audiences
2023 Resources
Workshop Agenda
RESOURCES AND MATERIALS FOR THE MORNING LIGHTNING TALKS ARE BELOW.
Sierra Muñoz, Northeastern University
Marine Science Center Educator Portal
Bob Chen, UMass Boston and the Stone Living Lab
Assessing Effectiveness in Nature-Based Solutions (16 minutes)
Jack Buckley, Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research
How we use GIS to advance citizen science literacy
Samantha Paladini, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW)
Climate Resilience Hub Map
Rising Tides: Combining Youth, Climate, and Music, UMass Boston
8 minute video
Aimee Bonanno, UMass Boston
Increasing Diversity in Your Programs
Aimee Bonanno, UMass Boston; Mass College of Art; Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
Designing Sustainable Shorelines with Art, Design, Science, and Local Knowledge
Heather O’Brien, Eastie Farm
Climate Literacy in an Urban Environment
2022 Resources
Our first Education Workshop took place on February 15, 2022. See below for the workshop agenda, lightning talk recordings, and resources for the lightning talks.
Workshop Agenda
Lightning Talk Recordings
Session I
Session II
Session III
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Resources and materials for the morning lightning talks are below.
Eric Carstens, Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs: Climate Science and the Arts: Using Creative Communication for Our Blue Planet
- Ocean Awareness Contest flyer
- We All Rise Prize flyer
- Massachusetts Awards flyer
- Contest Info Packet (English)
- Contest Info Packet (Español)
Bob Chen, UMass Boston and the Stone Living Lab: Social Networks in Ocean Education
- Recording of full talk (14 minutes)
Amy Eynatian, The Trustees of Reservations: The Trustees Waterfront Ambassadors Program
Brittany Hoffnagle, Woods Hole Group: Developing Climate Change and Coastal Resiliency Curriculum in Sandwich
Dira Johanif, Charles River Watershed Association: Green Infrastructure Ambassador Program
Maria Lyons, Mt. Alvernia Academy: Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale
Annie O’Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston: Community Science in Boston: Beach Profiling
Sylvia Scharf, Environmental Solutions Initiative – MIT: Sea Level Rise: Multimedia activities for high school students from MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative