Taking Root: Our Second Year of Education & Engagement
For the Lab’s Education and Engagement program, 2022 brought us many wonderful opportunities to engage with Bostonians and visitors of all ages across the Harbor!
SLL StoryMap: The Blizzard of ’26
Read about observations from real-time monitoring in Boston Harbor and community impacts from local media coverage during the February 2026 Nor'easter in this new StoryMap developed by the Lab.
Stone Living Lab Partnership with Living Seawalls Featured During Earthshot Prize Events
On December 2, the SLL team and our new partners at Living Seawalls attended the 2022 Earthshot Prize awards ceremony.
Stone Living Lab Named Host Committee Member of The Earthshot Prize, Boston 2022
The Stone Living Lab is delighted to be a member of the Host Committee for The Earthshot Prize, Boston 2022!
Beach Profiling Highlighted at Coastal Sediments 2023 Conference
Results from our beach profiling project have been selected to be presented at the 2023 Coastal Sediments conference this coming April in New Orleans, Louisiana!
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."
Commemorating Hurricane Sandy
This Saturday will be the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy making landfall in New York City and New Jersey on October 29, 2012.
For coastal communities, the canary is a sparrow
Lab Director of Climate Engagement, Melanie Gárate, authored this important piece which was featured in the Hill.
Intense Intertidal Temperatures
From July 19th – July 26th, Boston experienced a memorable weeklong heatwave with air temperatures well over 90°F every day, even topping out at 100°F on July 24th. We typically think of the coast as a place to cool down, but our sensors revealed that our intertidal sites were experiencing extreme heat, too.