by Rebecca Shoer Cabot Education & Community Engagement Program Manager This summer, we were delighted to welcome eight Boston area teachers to the pilot Stone Living Lab Teacher Institute! This free, five-day institute brought teachers and speakers together to explore Boston Harbor through the lens of climate change, place-based learning, and citizen science*. In addition
Visit the Climate Cart at the DCR Summer Nights at Carson Beach! Explore how erosion affects the coast, design a resilient city, learn about local marine species, or try one of our other activities. Be sure to stop by to pick up an exclusive SLL sticker! Other event activities include kayaking, volleyball, cornhole, art, and free dinner!
by Daria Healey Summer Institute Fellow Three weeks ago, we held our third annual Stone Living Lab (SLL) Teacher Institute – a free five-day course bringing teachers, educators, and researchers together to engage in hands-on activities and discussions about climate change, place-based learning, and participatory science* in the local context of Boston Harbor. This
The Lab’s May seminar presentation features UMass Boston School for the Environment master’s student Kalinda Roberts, and her work on a novel beach monitoring technique! Her research, funded by the Stone Living Lab, focuses on the use of “3D beach profiles”, a new beach monitoring technique. By incorporating Structure-from-Motion (SfM) technology and machine learning into
The Lab’s April seminar presentation will be an overview of Jessica Lillquist’s doctoral research: Understanding Opportunities and Limitations of Nature-based Strategies for Transformative Adaptation: An Examination of Stakeholder Values and Evolving Social Contracts in the Case Study of Boston. Jessica is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston in the School for the