Upon reaching the pinnacle event showcase of this year's Narragansett Bay Challenge, we are looking back on the past two years with our returning Northeastern team. To better understand Northeastern's experience with Envision Resilience, I spoke with two participating students, as well as assistant professor Sara Jensen Carr, who led the Envision Resilience studio for the past two years.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.---The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living with Rising Seas exhibition opens with a free community open house on Saturday, June 4 at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The exhibition, which runs from June 4 through June 26, will feature adaptive designs by participating university teams in the 2022 Envision Resilience Narragansett Bay Challenge.

Jolie Jaycobs spent her youngest years jumping in and out of playful waves on Nantucket Island, one of the most eastern towns in the United States, 30 miles from Massachusetts’ mainland coast. In this blog, she writes about the impact that had on her understanding of resilience.

A fifth-generation Nantucketer, Ginger Andrews is a well-known name around the island when it comes to preservation and climate efforts. She believes in looking at our island’s foundations before we figure out what steps need to be taken next; digging up and looking at Nantucket’s roots.

Two-thirds of Nantucket residents say they are more engaged on issues of climate change and coastal resilience than they were in 2021, according to a survey report released today by ReMain Nantucket’s Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge team. The second in a two-part survey to measure community attitudes about climate change was conducted in January and February 2022.

Last year, ReMain Nantucket's Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge survey found that 73% of Nantucketers are alarmed about climate change, a rate much higher than the national average of 33%. As part of the continued effort to expand and measure attitudes about climate change and sea level rise, they opened the second in their two-part survey this week.

The Envision Resilience Challenge, developed by ReMain Nantucket to encourage university students to develop adaptive and creative solutions to sea level rise, announced this week it will expand to its second coastal community—Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.

Alex Renaud, a student of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Architecture at Northeastern University and a participant in the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, reflects on the island community and its ability to adapt.

As part of the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, a pop-up art installation will be unveiled on Friday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m, ReMain Nantucket announced today. Through projection-mapping art, “Rising Above” will tell the history and envision the future of the island’s resilience. The installation will be projected across the water onto the backside of 4 Old North Wharf, the scallop shanty of fifth-generation Nantucketer Ginger Andrews.

Cassandra Lanson, ‘24 BLA Landscape Architecture and Environmental Science, describes the push and pull of the freedom to design without constraints for a place you’ve never been and the parallel feelings of being unbound. Read more about her design proposal for pocket ecology parks focused on ecological autonomy and relying on the marshland plant community that already existed in the Creeks, to expand it up the coast.

Envision advisor Dr. Sarah Treanor Bois explores the impact of our changing climate on Nantucket’s plant and animal life through a variety of projects in phenology, the study of nature’s cyclic and seasonal ongoings—particularly in relation to climate change.

Since the soft opening on July 2, more than 500 visitors have come through the exhibition and sparked conversations about how we move forward here on Nantucket, as well as in coastal communities across the country. Explore the gallery of photos from our July 17 Open House.

Local Nantucketer Alfred Sanford spent 40 years working with the Old North Wharf in downtown Nantucket, as an owner and manager, proposing a restoration for it and helping in the rebuilding after the “No Name” storm in 1991. Publicity around the Wilkes Square project in the early 2000s showed the vulnerability of Nantucket Harbor and Town to contemporary ideas and styles, which inspired Alfred to envision a new harbor idea to demonstrate that we can hold on to what makes Nantucket special, while still adapting for the future.

The Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge exhibition, which showcases student design proposals for how Nantucket residents and businesses can live with sea level rise, will open on July 2, ReMain Nantucket announced today. The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living with Rising Seas exhibition will be displayed on the second floor of the Nantucket Historical Association's Thomas Macy Warehouse at 12 Straight Wharf. The free exhibition will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 2021.

While a majority of Nantucket gardens are based on homeowner’s aesthetic preferences and not always native, native plants are well adapted to local environmental conditions and they serve as a scaffolding from which entire ecosystems are built. And there are two female gardeners leading the movement. Leigh Marr, operator of Artemisia Gardening and Luci Imbach, Owner and operator of Island Harvest Vegetable Gardens spoke with Morgan about Nantucket landscape industry’s “ecological and edible renaissance.”

In our most recent Stories From Ashore submission, Julie Kever—a 12th-generation Nantucketer—reflects on growing up as a year-rounder in the Brant Point neighborhood. Writing about her “flood adventures,” Julie recalls being picked up during at least two big winter storms by the Coast Guard’s amphibious ‘Duck’ that was there to collect winter families from the flooded streets of Brant Point. Read her thoughts about experiencing first-hand what it means to live in a low-lying flood zone year-round, and what it means when you choose to live in a place that faces those consequences.

The University of Miami School of Architecture team, one of five leading design schools participating in the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, is no stranger to sea level rise. The team representing Miami in the Challenge is using their experience with rising seas in their own city, paired with the school’s in-depth coastal urban resilience curriculum, to consider how the island of Nantucket might adapt. Their proposed design includes a three-layered approach with the theme of “Living with Water.”

For more than 90 years, Skip Willauer’s family dealt with the force of nature and impact of storms on their Dionis beach house, Westcliff. Read Skip’s story in the first of our Stories from Ashore series. In this series, we will share stories of local Nantucketers and their experience with climate change.

On a recent Friday afternoon in February, the worlds of 11th Hour Racing and ReMain Nantucket converged over a Zoom call with undergraduate and graduate students from five universities participating in the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge. The sibling organization to ReMain Nantucket, 11th Hour Racing shares the mission of supporting sustainable, equitable coastal communities.

Nantucketers are alarmed about climate change, according to results of a new survey conducted by ReMain Nantucket and ACKlimate and released today. An analysis of the survey, conducted in January, found that Nantucketers are far more likely to be alarmed about climate change than the national average, 73 percent compared to 26 percent.