Researchers dive into the historical record to recreate a 200-year sea-level history—and predict increased flooding in the 2030sIn 1825,a local engineer named Loammi Baldwin, Jr., and was commissioned by federal government to build a dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard. Baldwin began by taking cues from the sea itself,measuring low and tall tides every day for several years. Those measurements helped him to design the structure to allow ships in and to keep tides and storm surges out of the dry dock.
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