News - Stone Living Lab

03/31/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Conference, Education, Research

Recent Publications from the Stone Living Lab

In March 2025, the Stone Living Lab released findings from three projects funded by grants to three external organizations. These publications all explore nature-based approaches (NbA) through lenses of public health, open space access, economic opportunity, and climate justice. We’re also proud to celebrate Emma Brooks, a master’s student with the Stone Living Lab and supervised by Professor Bob Chen, who successfully defended her thesis: Harboring Change: Legacy Contamination, Plant-Metal Dynamics, and the Fate of a Boston Marsh.

02/10/2025 | Climate Preparedness, Education

Apply for the 2025 Summer Teacher Institute

We are now accepting applications for our 2025 Summer Teacher Institute!

12/05/2024 | Climate Preparedness, Education

Three Years of High Tides

Reflections on our Wicked High Tide program from our Education and Engagement Program Manager.

11/22/2024 | Education, Research

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.

A woman kneeling on granite steps, holding a meter stick in the surrounding floodwaters.

09/16/2024 | Climate Preparedness, Education

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.