Julia Hopkins Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering ju.hopkins@northeastern.edu Expertise Julia Hopkins in the Press WGBH From concrete gray to ‘tutu’ green, Mass. shows off the many colors of coastal resilience The Emerald Tutu — a play on Frederick Law Olmsted’s “Emerald Necklace” park network — is the green answer to more traditional, so-called “gray” infrastructure like seawalls and hard barriers. The Associated Press How coconuts protect the Jersey Shore, other eroding coasts One of them is in Boston, where Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, is using coconut fibers, wood chips and other material to create floating mats to blunt the force of waves, and encourage growth of aquatic vegetation. Can nature-based alternatives to seawalls keep the waves at bay? “We’re not creating a solid barrier, but we’re using a network of these little units around the shoreline to achieve wave energy dissipation,” said Julia Hopkins, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University. Boston 25 Emerald Tutu being developed to protect Boston neighborhoods from increased threat of flooding “What’s happening is Boston used to be marshland. A lot of it is filled,” explained Julia Hopkins, and assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University. GBH Boston Public Radio full show: July 19, 2022 Julia Hopkins explained the focus of her “Emerald Tutu” project, which would create a skirt of floating greenery along the most vulnerable parts of Boston’s shore. Hopkins is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, and on a team of researchers hoping to install an “Emerald Tutu” along the city’s coast. Can a floating ‘tutu’ protect Boston’s shoreline from rising seas? Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern and the coastal hydrology expert for the project, said that while the team hopes to deploy dozens of individual vegetation mats in Boston waterways next summer, they cannot succeed without communal support. WBZ Newsradio Boston-Area Scientists Bringing Back City Swamp To Fight Climate Change Project lead Gabriel Cira says he views the Tutu as a restoration project. He’s joined by a team of researchers, including Northeastern University coastal engineer Professor Julia Hopkins. Northeastern researchers have a plan to protect Boston from rising sea levels: floating vegetation mats they call the ‘Emerald Tutu’ “We’re just waiting for the boat” to get started on the harbor, said Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern and lead scientist for the Emerald Tutu project, in the statement. Local News Boston-Area Scientists Bringing Back City Swamp To Fight Climate Change Project lead Gabriel Cira says he views the Tutu as a restoration project. He’s joined by a team of researchers, including Northeastern University coastal engineer Professor Julia Hopkins.
WGBH From concrete gray to ‘tutu’ green, Mass. shows off the many colors of coastal resilience The Emerald Tutu — a play on Frederick Law Olmsted’s “Emerald Necklace” park network — is the green answer to more traditional, so-called “gray” infrastructure like seawalls and hard barriers.
The Associated Press How coconuts protect the Jersey Shore, other eroding coasts One of them is in Boston, where Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, is using coconut fibers, wood chips and other material to create floating mats to blunt the force of waves, and encourage growth of aquatic vegetation.
Can nature-based alternatives to seawalls keep the waves at bay? “We’re not creating a solid barrier, but we’re using a network of these little units around the shoreline to achieve wave energy dissipation,” said Julia Hopkins, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
Boston 25 Emerald Tutu being developed to protect Boston neighborhoods from increased threat of flooding “What’s happening is Boston used to be marshland. A lot of it is filled,” explained Julia Hopkins, and assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
GBH Boston Public Radio full show: July 19, 2022 Julia Hopkins explained the focus of her “Emerald Tutu” project, which would create a skirt of floating greenery along the most vulnerable parts of Boston’s shore. Hopkins is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, and on a team of researchers hoping to install an “Emerald Tutu” along the city’s coast.
Can a floating ‘tutu’ protect Boston’s shoreline from rising seas? Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern and the coastal hydrology expert for the project, said that while the team hopes to deploy dozens of individual vegetation mats in Boston waterways next summer, they cannot succeed without communal support.
WBZ Newsradio Boston-Area Scientists Bringing Back City Swamp To Fight Climate Change Project lead Gabriel Cira says he views the Tutu as a restoration project. He’s joined by a team of researchers, including Northeastern University coastal engineer Professor Julia Hopkins.
Northeastern researchers have a plan to protect Boston from rising sea levels: floating vegetation mats they call the ‘Emerald Tutu’ “We’re just waiting for the boat” to get started on the harbor, said Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern and lead scientist for the Emerald Tutu project, in the statement.
Local News Boston-Area Scientists Bringing Back City Swamp To Fight Climate Change Project lead Gabriel Cira says he views the Tutu as a restoration project. He’s joined by a team of researchers, including Northeastern University coastal engineer Professor Julia Hopkins.