The Stone Living Lab team was thrilled to host Water Envoy for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Meike van Ginneken, on Friday, February 7, 2025. The group discussed climate resilience along Boston Harbor and what nature-based approaches are being considered, as well as key insights on solutions that address the world’s pressing water needs as it relates to building sustainable research partnerships.
The Stone Living Lab is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Katie Dafforn as Co-Director of the Lab and as the Distinguished Professor of Coastal Resilience at the School for the Environment at UMass Boston.
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.
We are now accepting abstracts for our 2025 conference: Nature-based Resilience in Urban Coastal Settings!
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.
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.
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.
Read preliminary research findings from Lab's Cobble Berms project!
Our two-year cobble berm outreach project has come to a close!