Green Harbors Project® www.umb.edu/GHP Anamarija Frankić, Director and Founder

Biomimicry LivingLabs®: Vision & Mission Teaching and learning by doing “to be healthy, wealthy biomimicry and restoring our urban and sustainable” estuaries

MOOC Coasts & Communities, http://bit.ly/coastsfall14

Mystic River Watershed Cape Cod Community Harbor Community Wellfleet Harbor Stormwater Educational Program WHEN: 2011 and ongoing WHO: GHP; Town of Wellfleet; Center for Coastal Studies, MOP, USDA & Fish Advisory Environmental Partners Group, SPAT, Cape Cod Commission, NOAA, TNC WHEN: 2010 and ongoing Students: Deniz Bertuna, Anny Cataldo,

WHO: GHP; EPA; Mystic Jesse Bean;

River Watershed Association; Tri-CAP; Friends of Alewife River; Conservation Law WHAT: Wellfleet Harbor , unique estuary, Foundation; Action Group home to a centuries old shellfishing industry and a growing aquaculture WHAT: UMass Boston and Dr. Frankic were recently selected by the EPA Region 1 to tradition of oysters and hard clams. Our lead the urban watershed restoration in the Boston area. The formal MOU was signed two acres Oyster Reef Restoration Pilot on Dec. 21, 2011. Project has caltched substrate for As a result, UMass Boston capstone classes have the opportunity to work on several natural oyster settlement and already (7) pilot sites selected by local communities; Student projects have contributed to established the following benefits: stewardship activities addressing water quality, restoration, and fish advisory in • 2.5 million additional oysters annually Mystic River areas. GHP helped developed the summer stormwater educational • increase in commercial shellfish value program with local communities and youth green teams. The GHP and its Biomimicry LivingLabs are derived from a 1500 year old Native of $1million • 70% of nitrogen sink Together with the Conservation Law Foundation and MyRWA, we received a grant to Hawaiian Ahupua’a approach. This approach defines sustainable relationships do the first fish advisory in Lower Mystic area. • 90% biodiversity increase among land, water and humans from the tops of islands to the coral reefs and • the first no take shellfish sanctuary open ocean. GHP seeks a similar whole system interconnection between This project site is coupled with near by salt marsh restoration in Mayo & Herring watersheds, estuaries, urban harbors and costal habitats towards open ocean. Creeks; Watershed Community Savin Hill Cove Fort Point Channel WHEN: 2011 WHEN: 2008 and ongoing Youth Green Teams WHO: GHP, SHIFTBoston; Harvard WHO: GHP, Savin Hill Yacht Club, Graduate School of Design; Harvard WHEN: 2009 and ongoing Dorchester Yacht Club; Savin Hill Extension School; Friends of Fort Pt Neighborhood Association; DCR; Channel, City of Boston;

WHO: GHP; Southwest Corridor CDC; Thompson Island Outward Bound; Neponset River Watershed Association; WHAT: Design biomimetic floating NPS; City of Boston; Students: Stephen Norris, Deniz Bertuna, Sean Sears salt marsh and shellfish beds to improve water quality in degraded Waquoit Bay WHAT: Youth environmental stewardship WHAT: Establish biomimicry-based “LivingLabs” for multi- channels where shoreline space is education. Youth green teams spend habitat (salt marsh, shellfish, and eelgrass) restoration of limited. summers cleaning up watershed areas and keystone coastal habitats, to restore ecological services in WHEN: 2007-2010 canoe the Neponset river. They sample and urban estuaries. This project established the first Biomimicry analyze river water quality and report their LivingLabs ®in the coastal US, at the Savin Hill Cove funded WHO: GHP; Waquoit Bay National Estuarine findings and recommendations to public by the Schmidt Family Foundation. The Cove is located Native American Tradition Research Reserve (WBNERR); Upper Cape religious officials and local communities. between a Vietnam Memorial, the Savin Hill Yacht Club and communities; Local Community WHEN: 2009 and ongoing Dr. Frankic and GHP received a UMass Boston. The site is ideal LivingLabs for applied science

Stewardship Award from the City of Boston. to ‘teach and learn by doing biomimicry’ in addressing and Student: Lisa Greber solving local community issues. Although degraded and WHO: GHP, UMass Boston, Native polluted this site still has life in a fringe salt marsh, shellfish American Institute; Local Native WHAT: A community-based participatory research (including oysters) and shorebirds, teaching students about American communities; DMF, NPS (CBPR) project that involved listening to the needs of Wollaston Beach the resiliency and tenacity of coastal systems, and how to Islands; Green Teams, the various religious communities in the Upper Cape WHEN: 2012 and ongoing adapt to flooding, erosion and sediment accretion issues. Thompson Island Outward Bound area (conversations, interviews, surveys, and as a participant observer at events and service) around WHO: GHP, Friends of Wollaston WHAT: Build a replica of fish weir and the issues of coasts, climate change, and community Beach, City of Quincy; seed soft shell clams to restore their stewardship. population on Thompson Island, The project then implementing selected programs WHAT: Restoration of keystone which sits at the confluence of the and events as suggested, including energy events coastal habitats to improve beach three rivers draining into Boston and environmental education. water quality; Harbor; the site sacred to Native American Communities.