Teaching Climate
Cobble Berm Monitoring Project Update: Focus Group Kickoff!
Kirk Bosma Woods Hole Group As part of a Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management (MACZM) Coastal Resiliency Grant, Woods Hole Group, the Stone Living Lab, and MACZM are developing a series of educational workshops and training sessions for municipal staff and employees. These workshops are focused on providing deeper information on nature-based approaches (NBA), and specifically
Force of Nature
By Lisa Allen The Boston Harbor Islands are a natural barrier to storm-driven waves and offer a perfect setting for research into nature-based methods for enhancing their protective features. As cities around the world look to seawalls and other costly, invasive structures to fend off rising oceans, superior fixes may be hiding in plain sight—just
Science in the Harbor
Stone Living Lab Launches as New Nature-Based Resilience Solution
New Innovative and Collaborative Ecosystem As coastal communities face increasing climate-related threats, a new innovative and collaborative ecosystem has launched that aims to become a global hub for testing and scaling up nature-based solutions in the high-energy environment of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. The Stone Living Lab is a partnership of
Seminar: Meet the National Parks of Boston Climate Conservation Corps
The Lab’s August seminar presentation features National Parks of Boston’s Climate Conservation Corps (NPB CCC)! NPB CCC is a service-learning program that addresses climate change through lenses of understanding, mitigation, adaptation, and communication. The National Parks of Boston is comprised of three sites with valuable historic, natural, and cultural resources. The CCC program is evaluating
Stone Living Lab Education Workshop
Discussing climate change with the next generation
by Nicole Castañeda Summer Program Intern As the summer intern at the Stone Living Lab, I’ve spent much of my time as an educator, which was a little outside my comfort zone. I have been a summer camp counselor, but this is a whole different ball game, one without a set curriculum and schedule but
In Eastie, an early glimpse at Boston’s existential and expensive struggle to hold back the sea | Boston Globe
After two consecutive months that brought with them coastal flooding during storm events, local media has been very interested in covering the phenomenon. The Lab’s Research Director Paul Kirshen is featured in a Boston Globe story focused on East Boston’s efforts to mitigate flooding. Read the story below. In Eastie, an early glimpse at Boston’s existential