By Daria Healey Summer Institute Fellow Last month, we were pleased to host our second Stone Living Lab Teacher (SLL) 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
2023 was an exciting year at the Lab! In addition to our research & monitoring work, our education & engagement team led many enriching programs and events, which you can read about below. We are thankful for all of our wonderful staff, advisors, and partners, and we look forward to 2024! Conference We began 2023
Contributed by: Evan Paris, National Parks of Boston CLIMATE CONSERVATION CORPS Member On top of spectacular natural beauty and refreshing tranquility away from the hustle and bustle of city life, the Boston Harbor Islands offer a host of favors to humans and animals alike. There is one special ecosystem sprinkled throughout the islands that particularly epitomizes
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
By Rebecca Shoer Cabot Education and Community Engagement Program Manager 2021 was our first year developing and implementing pilot education and public engagement programs for the Lab! Working alongside Boston Harbor Now and our many partners, we shared our research with young people at Coughlin Park, observed climate change effects in Charlestown Navy Yard, and experienced the
This summer the Stone Living Lab is bringing climate educational activities to the Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Center! Every other Friday through September 2, join SLL to experiment with erosion, create climate art, or discover how warming oceans will affect our marine neighbors. These pilot activities allow visitors to explore coastal change through different lenses, and
Check out the new op-ed in CommonWealth Magazine written by Stone Living Lab Managing Director Joe Christo and Boston Harbor Now CEO & President Kathy Abbott about Boston prioritizing nature-based approaches to climate change. Adapting to water rather than fighting it BY Joe christo & kathy abbott | october 31, 2022 Ten years ago, Superstorm
By Rebecca Shoer June 2024 marked two years since the Lab’s cobble berms research, monitoring, and education project began. Over the course of the project thus far, staff from the Stone Living Lab, Duxbury Beach Reservation, and Woods Hole Group have led research, monitoring, and education efforts at cobble berm sites across coastal Massachusetts. The
Daniel Lopez is an incoming Masters student to UMass Boston working in the Byrnes Lab. He comes to us from Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB -> UMB!) where he wrote his capstone thesis looking at relationships between urchins, abalone, and kelp in the intertidal. Afterwards, he was a fellow in the NASA Develop program. Here at UMB
Paul Kirshen is Professor of Climate Adaptation in the School for the Environment at University of Massachusetts Boston and Research Director of the Stone Living Lab. He has more than 40 years of experience serving as Principal Investigator of complex, interdisciplinary, participatory research related to water resources, coastal zone, and infrastructure management, and climate variability