How sponge cities offer a sustainable solution to rising sea levels | WBUR
Read or listen to WBUR's coverage of Professor Kongjian Yu's visit to Boston to learn about his visit with Stone Living Lab staff.
Stone Living Lab 2025 Conference Recap
The Stone Living Lab welcomed more than 350 people for our third biennial conference, “Nature-Based Coastal Resilience in Urban Settings,” on April 16-18 at UMass Boston.
Call for Abstracts!
We are now accepting abstracts for our 2025 conference: Nature-based Resilience in Urban Coastal Settings!
Three Years of High Tides
Reflections on our Wicked High Tide program from our Education and Engagement Program Manager.
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.
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!
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.
Discussing climate change with the next generation
Reflections on a summer spent working with and educating the next generation!