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
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
The Stone Living Lab’s Living Seawalls project at Condor Street Urban Wild in East Boston (Photo Credit: Christian Merfeld, Boston Harbor Now) Media contacts: Peter Howe/Katherine Adam, Denterlein, for Stone Living Lab phowe@denterlein.com kadam@denterlein.com press@stonelivinglab.org 617-482-0042 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON, Mass., November 22, 2024 – North America’s first-ever “Living Seawalls” panels were installed by
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
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
In late March, Rebecca Shoer (Stone Living Lab), Elisabeth Colby (National Parks of Boston), and Holly Rosa (Boston Public Schools) joined thousands of science educators in Denver for the 2024 National Science Teaching Association Conference! The Lab team joined part of NSTA’s first “climate change” program track to present on the SLL Summer Teacher Institute.
Elizabeth Solomon is an enrolled member of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag and volunteers to represent the Massachusett Tribe and indigenous interests on the Stone Living Lab Steering Committee. Ms. Solomon speaks frequently about local indigenous issues and has a long-standing commitment to human rights, diversity, inclusion, and community building that she brings to both
Marianne Connolly is an environmental consultant with over 30 years of government experience and now works with the staff of Boston Harbor Now as a member of the Stone Living Lab Project Team. She spent most of her professional career with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, the Metropolitan District Commission, and Coastal Zone Management focused
Kathy Abbott is the first President and CEO of Boston Harbor Now. Kathy began her career on the Harbor Islands as a park ranger in college. As President and CEO, she is responsible for working with the board and staff to create a welcoming and resilient harbor that benefits everyone in the Greater Boston region.
Sarah White is the Director of Climate Resilience for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). She is focused on developing and implementing an agency framework while ensuring that climate change considerations are incorporated into agency initiatives and projects. Advances current research and policy initiatives on climate change including effective mitigation and adaptation practices,