Kayla Bradley UMass Boston As part of the Stone Living Lab’s ongoing mission to collaborate with coastal communities, the University of Massachusetts Boston and the SLL staff began a new citizen/community science project to study the impact of coastal storm flooding in Boston. The project, Coastal Surge Investigators (CSI) is the third of a
Curtis Morris is a PhD student with the Stone Living Lab and the Byrnes Lab in the School for the Environment at UMass Boston. Over the next several years, Curtis will be exploring the mysteries of urban intertidal ecology and will primarily be working on biological monitoring for the cobble berm project and the REACT multi-tiered coastal protection
Daria Healey has been supporting the planning and implementation of the Summer Teacher Institute since 2023, in addition to other summer programming. She is a PhD candidate at Northeastern University in the Human Behavior and Sustainability Sciences at Northeastern University. She received her Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Northeastern University in 2023
October’s Stone Living Lab Seminar will feature the Town of Hull’s Director of Climate Adaptation & Conservation, Christian Krahforst, PhD. Christian will discuss the potential for nourishment on Nantasket Beach, dune restoration work, a potential cobble-berm site, and a brief overview of developing an adaptation roadmap on the neighborhood scale (including the topic of planned
Dr. Mark Borrelli is a Coastal Geologist. In 2018 he became the founding Director of the Coastal Processes and Ecosystems Laboratory, or CaPE Lab, a joint research effort between the School for the Environment within the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He has been the Director