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.

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.

06/17/2024 | Lab in the News

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.