The Stone Living Lab is an innovative and collaborative initiative for testing and scaling up nature-based approaches to climate adaptation, coastal resilience and ecological restoration in the high-energy environment of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. 

The pictures collected from our Chronolog stations will help us measure and track coastal change along Boston Harbor. How will seasonal change and storm events shift in the face of climate change?

Find out more about our other education initiatives and get involved at https://stonelivinglab.org/education/.

The Stone Living Lab is a partnership of the City of Boston, UMass Boston School for the Environment, Boston Harbor Now, the National Parks of Boston, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation that engages scientists and the community in research, education, and the promotion of equity.  

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Thank you for submitting your image to this photo station!  Damde Marsh hosts hundreds of migratory bird species each year as well as countless other saltmarsh species. Watching how the marsh change over time will help researchers at the Stone Living Lab understand how climate change may be impacting natural habitats.    

The Stone Living Lab is an innovative and collaborative initiative for testing and scaling up nature-based approaches to climate adaptation, coastal resilience and ecological restoration in the high-energy environment of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. 

Find out more about our other education initiatives and get involved at https://stonelivinglab.org/education/.  

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Damde Marsh

Thank you for submitting your image to this photo station! This site is at Condor Street Urban Wild, a unique public space and natural habitat maintained by the City of Boston. Together with the Lab, the Urban Wilds program is monitoring the growth and health of a small salt marsh along the coast of the park.   

The Stone Living Lab is an innovative and collaborative initiative for testing and scaling up nature-based approaches to climate adaptation, coastal resilience and ecological restoration in the high-energy environment of Boston Harbor.

Condor Street Urban Wild

Thank you for submitting your image to this photo station! Photographs from this site will provide data to Stone Living Lab researchers about water levels over time and during specific events such as “wicked high tides."

Find out more about our other education initiatives and get involved at https://stonelivinglab.org/education/. 

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Fallon Pier

Thank you for submitting your image to this photo station!  Photographs from this site will help researchers with the Stone Living Lab and Woods Hole Group monitor the Duxbury Beach Dune Restoration Project. The project restored one of the narrowest and at-risk sections of the barrier beach system, improving the resilience of 15 miles of shoreline, as well as continued access to the site for recreationalists, landowners, and emergency personnel.  The project also provided nesting habitat for the state and federally listed piping plovers and state listed least tern that nest on Duxbury Beach.  By restoring the dune to specifications suitable for plovers and terns, these beach nesting species were provided with improved nesting and chick rearing habitat less vulnerable to overwash.  Images from this site will provide data about the continued performance of the dune restoration and resiliency of the overall barrier beach.

The Stone Living Lab is an innovative and collaborative initiative for testing and scaling up nature-based approaches to climate adaptation, coastal resilience and ecological restoration in the high-energy environment of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.

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Duxbury Barrier Beach

Thank you for submitting your image to this photo station!  Photographs from this site will help researchers with the Stone Living Lab and Woods Hole Group monitor changes along the shoreline near Powder Point Bridge, as well as the eventual construction and performance of a nature-based solution.

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5 chronologs managed by Stone Living Lab

Damde Marsh

Condor Street Urban Wild

Fallon Pier

Duxbury Barrier Beach

Powder Point Bridge

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