Call for Abstracts!
We are now accepting abstracts for our 2025 conference: Nature-based Resilience in Urban Coastal Settings!
Press Release: North America’s first-ever Living Seawalls habitat panels installed by Stone Living Lab at two Boston Harbor sites
North America’s first-ever “Living Seawalls” panels were installed by the Stone Living Lab at two locations on Boston Harbor this month. The panels are specially designed to create habitat for marine life to flourish on what would otherwise be inhospitable flood barriers.
Snails, mussels and seaweed: Boston project aims to bring life to barren seawalls | WBUR
The Lab's pilot Living Seawalls project, Managing Director Joe Christo, and UMass Boston researcher Jarrett Byrnes are featured by WBUR, highlighting how new engineering designs can help "green the gray" along Boston's shoreline.
Protective sea walls recently installed in East Boston already have tenants | Boston Globe
The Lab’s pilot Living Seawalls project, Managing Director Joe Christo, and UMass Boston researcher Jarrett Byrnes are featured by the Boston Globe, highlighting the site in East Boston and some of the residents already calling the spot home.
Preliminary Research Findings From Stone Living Lab Cobble Berms Project
Read preliminary research findings from Lab's Cobble Berms project!
That’s a Wrap! Cobble Berms Education and Outreach Pilot
Our two-year cobble berm outreach project has come to a close!
Stone Living Lab Joins Museum of Science for Rise Up Weekend
The Lab joined our partners at the Museum of Science for their annual Rise Up: A Climate Event weekend!
Opportunity: Research Fellow & Data Manager
We are seeking a research fellow and data manager to help us curate, manage, and make publicly accessible our data in a way that obeys FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse) best practices.
Opportunity: Seasonal Biological Monitoring Technicians in the Byrnes Lab
The Byrnes lab at UMass Boston seeks multiple summer technician for work on biological monitoring of urban rocky shorelines in the Boston Harbor Islands in collaboration with the Stone Living Lab.