News - Stone Living Lab

09/16/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Conference, Education, Research

Living Seawalls in Practice: A Workshop on Science-Informed Design in California

The Stone Living Lab's Co-Director Katie Dafforn presents to the Living Seawalls workshop in San Francisco.

09/12/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Education, Lab in the News, Partner Publication, Research

Efforts to Protect Harbor from Floods Lifted by $10M Donation | State House News Service

With several “king tides” in the near-term forecast, the Stone Foundation is donating $10 million over the next five years to help a local lab expand its work on nature-based methods of adapting places like Boston Harbor to flooding from climate change.

A woman kneeling on granite steps, holding a meter stick in the surrounding floodwaters.

09/08/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Education

Wicked High Tides are coming to Boston!

This fall, Boston will experience a spectacular tidal event: the Perigean Spring Tides (also called King Tides). These “wicked high tides” result in high tides that are 2-4 feet higher than normal. This natural phenomenon occurs a few times each year, and gives us a window into how sea level rise will soon start affecting our daily lives.

08/22/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Conference, Education, Research

Exploring Nature-Based Coastal Innovation: Reflections from the Conference on Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation of Marine Ecosystems in Hong Kong

The Stone Living Lab's Co-Director Katie Dafforn presents to the International Conference on Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation of Marine Ecosystems (BECoME) in Hong Kong.

08/19/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Education

A Summer In Place: Exploring Boston with the Teacher Institute!

In this week-long course, we explore the intersection of place-based learning, participatory science, and climate change within the local context of Boston Harbor. Read on to see what we did each day!