Professor Kongjian Yu enjoyed a warm welcome on a two-day visit to Boston to share his “sponge city” vision for climate resiliency.
Coastal flooding this month brought renewed attention to Boston's vulnerability to high tides, and several news outlets featured the Lab's outreach efforts!
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.
The Cobble Berm biological monitoring team from the Byrnes Lab at UMass Boston was featured on the front page of the Falmouth Enterprise!
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.
Stone Living Lab Research Director Paul Kirshen is featured in a Boston Globe story about coastal flooding in East 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.
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.
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."