September Flooding Coverage
Coastal flooding this month brought renewed attention to Boston's vulnerability to high tides, and several news outlets featured the Lab's outreach efforts!
Boston should expect 12 to 19 days of high-tide flooding next year, per NOAA | WBUR
The Lab’s Managing Director Joe Christo is featured in a WBUR story about NOAA's annual report projecting the number of days Boston can expect to experience high-tide flooding in 2025.
Cobble Berm Biological Monitoring Team Featured in Falmouth Enterprise
The Cobble Berm biological monitoring team from the Byrnes Lab at UMass Boston was featured on the front page of the Falmouth Enterprise!
At Tenean Beach, city, state pull from nature’s toolbox to address coastal flood paths | Bay State Banner
Stone Living Lab Managing Director Joe Christo is featured in the Bay State Banner for a story about coastal flooding at Tenean Beach in Dorchester.
In Eastie, an early glimpse at Boston’s existential and expensive struggle to hold back the sea | Boston Globe
Stone Living Lab Research Director Paul Kirshen is featured in a Boston Globe story about coastal flooding in East Boston.
February 13, 2024 Storm & Flooding Coverage | NBC 10 Boston
The Lab was featured in not one, but two NBC 10 Boston stories about the February 13, 2024 storm that resulted in flooding in many low-lying coastal areas of the city.
The photos that helped us tell the stories of 2023 | WBUR
WBUR caught this stunning photo of Rebecca Shoer, our Senior Program Manager for Education and Engagement discussing wicked high tides with students at Long Wharf in November 2023.
Adapting to water rather than fighting it
Check out the new op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine written by Boston Harbor Now President and CEO Kathy Abbott and Stone Living Lab Managing Director Joe Christo about Boston prioritizing nature-based approaches to climate change. In the op-ed, they write "Climate change is a challenge that requires everyone at the table – public partners at all levels of government, the private sector, scientists, and, most importantly, the residents in communities most at risk."