Here is a list of all presentations (in pdf format) for which the organizing committee obtained the agreement of the author to publish their content online. If you use information contained in the presentations, please make sure to cite the author(s) and indicate that it was presented at ALAN. If you want to use any graphics, be sure to obtain the rights by contacting the corresponding author.
eALAN 2021 - Online Presentations
Aleš Šubic, Initiative for Regulation of Outdoor Lighting, Poljane/Škofja Loka, Slovenia
Title: Reasons for the failure of light pollution prevention legislation in Slovenia
Helga U. Kuechly, Yiğit Ö. Altıntaş, Nona Schulte-Römer, Andreas Hänel, Eva C. Weiss, Normän Naboulsi, Sabine Frank, Sicco Bauer, and Christopher C. M. Kyba, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Title: Nachtlicht-BüHNE: update on the German citizen science project to create large area lighting surveys
Ariel L. Simons, Karen L. M. Martin, and Travis Longcore, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, California USA
Title: Ground-level nighttime illuminance influences distribution of species on sandy beaches
Chu Wing So, Nok Yan Janet Chang, Shengjie Liu, Lina Canas, Constance Walker, Sze Leung Cheung and Chun Shing Jason Pun, Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: A Multinational Study of Night Sky Brightness patterns: preliminary results from the Globe at Night – Sky Brightness Monitoring Network (GaN-MN)
Jaime Zamorano, Rafael González, Salvador Bará, Sergio Pascual, Jaime Izquierdo, José Luis Navarro, Ignacio Hilera, Jesús Gallego, Nicolás Cardiel, José Robles, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, Cristóbal García, Esteban González Guardia and Lucía García, Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Title: AZOTEA: (Zenithal astronomy during & after the lockdown)
Alicia Pereira, Jaume Escofet and Montserrat Tàpias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Title: Procedure to estimate lighting at mesopic/scopic levels in epidemiological studies
Anupama Yadav, Jyoti Tiwari, Raj Kumar, Vaibhav Vaish, Shalie Malik and Sangeeta Rani, UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW, India
Title: A comparative account of acute versus chronic exposure of LAN on behavior and physiology of resident Indian Weaver bird
Title: Reasons for the failure of light pollution prevention legislation in Slovenia
Helga U. Kuechly, Yiğit Ö. Altıntaş, Nona Schulte-Römer, Andreas Hänel, Eva C. Weiss, Normän Naboulsi, Sabine Frank, Sicco Bauer, and Christopher C. M. Kyba, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Title: Nachtlicht-BüHNE: update on the German citizen science project to create large area lighting surveys
Ariel L. Simons, Karen L. M. Martin, and Travis Longcore, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, California USA
Title: Ground-level nighttime illuminance influences distribution of species on sandy beaches
Chu Wing So, Nok Yan Janet Chang, Shengjie Liu, Lina Canas, Constance Walker, Sze Leung Cheung and Chun Shing Jason Pun, Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: A Multinational Study of Night Sky Brightness patterns: preliminary results from the Globe at Night – Sky Brightness Monitoring Network (GaN-MN)
Jaime Zamorano, Rafael González, Salvador Bará, Sergio Pascual, Jaime Izquierdo, José Luis Navarro, Ignacio Hilera, Jesús Gallego, Nicolás Cardiel, José Robles, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, Cristóbal García, Esteban González Guardia and Lucía García, Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Title: AZOTEA: (Zenithal astronomy during & after the lockdown)
Alicia Pereira, Jaume Escofet and Montserrat Tàpias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Title: Procedure to estimate lighting at mesopic/scopic levels in epidemiological studies
Anupama Yadav, Jyoti Tiwari, Raj Kumar, Vaibhav Vaish, Shalie Malik and Sangeeta Rani, UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW, India
Title: A comparative account of acute versus chronic exposure of LAN on behavior and physiology of resident Indian Weaver bird
eALAN 2020 - Online Presentations
No presentations available
ALAN 2018 - Online Presentations
Kyba, C. GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Title: A proposed method for estimating regional and global changes in energy consumption for outdoor lighting
Liu, J.A., Haasbeek, D.L., Kirsten, A.J., Wise, S., Buchanan, B. Department of Biology, Utica, NY, 13502, USA
Title: Growth and development of African Clawed Frog (Xenopuslaevis) larvae reared under different intensities of LED light at night
Kinzey, B., Miller, N.J. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Portland, OR, USA
Title: Decoupling Outdoor Lighting from Sky Glow
Ribas, S.J., Torra, J., Figueras, F., Domingo, R.C. Parc Astronomic Montsec, Consell Comarcal de la Noguera E-25691, Àger, Lleida, Catalonia.
Title: Interaction of clouds and fog with the measure of Night Sky Brightness
Ribas, S.J., Vilajoliu, J. Parc Astronomic Montsec, Consell Comarcal de la Noguera E-25691, Àger, Lleida, Catalonia.
Title: The Sky of Montsec: How a Dark Sky is Impacting the Economy of a Rural Area in Catalonia
Schroer, S. Holker, F., Corcho, O. and the STARS4ALL consortium, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
Title: STARS4ALL – Citizen science to save European nightscapes
Simoneau, A. Aubé, M. Bishop's University, Cegep de Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Title: Hyperspectral study of the impact of private lighting on skyglow at the Asiago Observatory, Italy
Williams, S. Baker, T., Wise, S. and Buchanan, B. Department of Biology, Utica, NY, 13502, USA
Title: The effect of artificial light at night (ALAN) on activity patterns of a nocturnal salamander
ALAN 2016 - Online Presentations
Health
Green, Amit, Sleep Institute Assuta Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel and Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
Title: The effects of screen illumination on: sleep efficiency and architecture, physiology, emotion and behavior-possible effect on human health
Biology & Ecology
Manfrin, Alessandro, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
and Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K.
Title: Artificial light at night affects biotic linkages between aquatic and riparian ecosystems
Raap, Thomas, University of Antwerp, Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Group, Wilrijk, Belgium
Title: Light pollution affects body mass and oxidative status in free-living nestling songbirds: an experimental study
Wise, Sharon, Utica College, Utica, NY 13502, U.S.A,
Title: Intrusion of artificial light at night into leaf-litter habitats: Implications for activity in a nocturnal salamander
Measurements & Modeling
Carr, James, Carr Astronautics Corp., Greenbelt, MD, USA
Title: Observing Nightlights from Space with TEMPO
Gyuk, Geza, Adler Planetarium, Chicago IL, USA
Title: NITESat: A High Resolution, Full-Color, Light Pollution Imaging Satellite Mission
Hänel, Andreas, Museum am Schölerberg, Osnabrück, Germany
Title: SQMDroid - A universal SQM measurement device
Kyba, Christopher, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Title: Are relationships between artificial light emission and land use dependent on community size?
Pendoley, Kellie, Pendoley Environmental Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia
Title: Transcontinental Australia, Dark Sky Quality Survey; Perth to Brisbane, one road, 5500km, 9 days
Ribas, Salvador, Parc Astronòmic Montsec – Consell Comarcal de la Noguera, Àger, Spain and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB-IEEC), Barcelona, Spain
Title: How clouds are amplifying (or not) the effects of ALAN
Shariff, Nur, Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Title: Light Pollution and its Impact towards Islamic New Moon (hilal) Observation
Society
Radicchi, Antonella and Meier, Josiane, Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chair of Urban and Regional Economics, Berlin, Germany
Title: Urban Planning Challenges: Toward integrated approaches to sustainable lightscape and soundscape planning
Stockmar, Axel, Light Consult International, Celle, Germany
Title: Lighting of railway premises –Minimizing obtrusive lighting according to current regulations
Giacomelli, Andrea, Attivarti.org, Torniella, Italy
Title: Participatory Dark Sky Quality Monitoring from Italy: interactions between awareness raising and research
Technology & Design
Khademagha, Parisa, Building Physics and Services Unit, Department of the Built Environment / Intelligent Lighting Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Directionality: an important light parameter for human health to consider in lighting design
Dimitris, Nikolaou, National Technical University of Athens, Lighting Laboratory, 9 Heroon Politechniou, Athens, Greece
Title: Technical and economical assessment of the containment of light pollution through the use of luminous intensity restrictive measures
LoNNE
Schroer, Sibylle, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
Title: The Loss of the Night Network (LoNNe) Conference wrap up and announcement of ALAN 2018
Green, Amit, Sleep Institute Assuta Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel and Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
Title: The effects of screen illumination on: sleep efficiency and architecture, physiology, emotion and behavior-possible effect on human health
Biology & Ecology
Manfrin, Alessandro, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
and Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K.
Title: Artificial light at night affects biotic linkages between aquatic and riparian ecosystems
Raap, Thomas, University of Antwerp, Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Group, Wilrijk, Belgium
Title: Light pollution affects body mass and oxidative status in free-living nestling songbirds: an experimental study
Wise, Sharon, Utica College, Utica, NY 13502, U.S.A,
Title: Intrusion of artificial light at night into leaf-litter habitats: Implications for activity in a nocturnal salamander
Measurements & Modeling
Carr, James, Carr Astronautics Corp., Greenbelt, MD, USA
Title: Observing Nightlights from Space with TEMPO
Gyuk, Geza, Adler Planetarium, Chicago IL, USA
Title: NITESat: A High Resolution, Full-Color, Light Pollution Imaging Satellite Mission
Hänel, Andreas, Museum am Schölerberg, Osnabrück, Germany
Title: SQMDroid - A universal SQM measurement device
Kyba, Christopher, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Title: Are relationships between artificial light emission and land use dependent on community size?
Pendoley, Kellie, Pendoley Environmental Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia
Title: Transcontinental Australia, Dark Sky Quality Survey; Perth to Brisbane, one road, 5500km, 9 days
Ribas, Salvador, Parc Astronòmic Montsec – Consell Comarcal de la Noguera, Àger, Spain and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB-IEEC), Barcelona, Spain
Title: How clouds are amplifying (or not) the effects of ALAN
Shariff, Nur, Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Title: Light Pollution and its Impact towards Islamic New Moon (hilal) Observation
Society
Radicchi, Antonella and Meier, Josiane, Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chair of Urban and Regional Economics, Berlin, Germany
Title: Urban Planning Challenges: Toward integrated approaches to sustainable lightscape and soundscape planning
Stockmar, Axel, Light Consult International, Celle, Germany
Title: Lighting of railway premises –Minimizing obtrusive lighting according to current regulations
Giacomelli, Andrea, Attivarti.org, Torniella, Italy
Title: Participatory Dark Sky Quality Monitoring from Italy: interactions between awareness raising and research
Technology & Design
Khademagha, Parisa, Building Physics and Services Unit, Department of the Built Environment / Intelligent Lighting Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Directionality: an important light parameter for human health to consider in lighting design
Dimitris, Nikolaou, National Technical University of Athens, Lighting Laboratory, 9 Heroon Politechniou, Athens, Greece
Title: Technical and economical assessment of the containment of light pollution through the use of luminous intensity restrictive measures
LoNNE
Schroer, Sibylle, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
Title: The Loss of the Night Network (LoNNe) Conference wrap up and announcement of ALAN 2018
ALAN 2015 - Online Presentations
Here is a list of all presentations (in pdf format) for which the organizing committee obtained the agreement of the author to publish their content online. If you use information contained in the presentations, please make sure to cite the author(s) and indicate that it was presented at ALAN. If you want to use any graphics, be sure to obtain the rights by contacting the corresponding author.
Invited Speakers
- Aronson, Kristan. (Health) Public Health Sciences; Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada, aronson@queensu.ca
Title: Human health effects of exposure to light at night, with emphasis on biomarkers and breast cancer - Clifford, Paul. (Society) Moose Management Coordinator for the Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources, NS, Canada. Mi'kmaq traditional knowledge including night sky stories(Canada), Clifford@uinr.ca
Title: Connectivity of Spirit - Feierabend, Scott. (Society) Executive Director, International Dark-Sky Association, leader in night sky preservation (USA), scottf@darksky.org
Title: Together … We Can Change The World
- Goulet, Pierre and Giguère,Sébastien. (Society) ASTROLab, Mont-Mégantic, Québec, Canada, giguere.sebastien@sepaq.com
Title: Fighting short wavelenghts at night: deployment of low-blue led lighting in the Mont-Mégantic International Dark Sky Reserve
- Hänel, Andreas. (Measure & Modelling) Planetarium, Museum am Schölerberg, Osnabrück
Title: Quantifying sky quality Measurement methods for sky brightness - Longcore, Travis. (Biology & Ecology) Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA, longcore@dornsife.usc.edu
Title: Light Pollution as Global Change
- Miller, Naomi. (Technology & Design) Designer/Senior Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Title: Pedestrian-Friendly Nighttime Lighting
- Straw, Will. (Society), Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, Québec, Canada
Title: Film noir after black-and-white
Health
- Dechesne. Roland.G. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Calgary Centre , Canada
Title: ALAN and Schistosomiasis; A Potential Link
- Motta, Mario. MDTufts Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Title: Glare and Human Eye Physiology
- Seitinger, Suzanne. Philips Lighting, Burlington, MA, USA
Title: Exploring metrics for ambient polychromatic light in interior settings for circadian support
Biology & Ecology
- Azam, Clémentine. Natural History Museum of Paris, France
Title: The use of a French citizen database to analyze the effect of Artificial Light At Night on bats communities at different landscape scales
- Da Silva, Arnaud. Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department Behavioural Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics, Seewiesen 82319, Germany
Title: Singing from North to South: Latitudinal Variation of the Effects of ALAN on Timing of Dawn Song
- Dick, Robert. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and The Canadian Scotobiology Group, Canada
Title: Aiming High to Raise Awareness of ALAN in Protected Areas
- Kardel, Scott. International Dark-Sky Association, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Title: Findings, Challenges, and Solutions: Restoring the Night Sky Gulf Coast Sea Turtle Restoration Project - Mažeika, Sullivan. The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, USA
Note: Some preliminary datas are included in this presentation. So please contact the authors before sharing/using this presentation. sullivan.191@osu.edu
Title: Community and ecosystem responses to artificial night lighting across aquaticterrestrial boundaries
- Newman, Rhian C. Organisms and Environment, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF, UK
Title: Artificial Light at Night in Freshwater Ecosystems
- Pendoley, Kellie. Pendoley Environmental Pty Ltd, Perth Western Australia
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Instrumental Light Measurement Techniques for Biological Studies
- Shotbolt, Tim. Lighting Consultant, Australia
Title: Koalas, Kookaburras, Marine Turtles, Iron Ore, Bauxite, Electricity, Trade, Travel, Prosperity, Growth, Legislation, International Agreements and Stars at Night in Australia.
Measurements & Modeling
- Chadwick, A Moore. Night Skies Program Manager, US National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Title: Towards a More Comprehensive Bortle Classification System
- Duriscoe, Dan M. Light Skies Program, US National Park Service, Bishop, California, USA
Title: A database of night sky brightness photometry for U. S. National Parks
- Kyba, Christopher CM. Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Postdam and Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei, Berlin, Germany
Title: Evaluating the systematic uncertainty of the Loss of the Night app
- Walker, Constance E. National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, California, AZ, USA
Society
- Adams, Mary. The Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Mackinaw City, Emmet County, Michigan, USA
Title: Once upon a time~Thinking Beyond the Telescope and Technology to Understand the Role of Natural Darkness in Developing Community
- Baddiley, Christopher. British Astronomical Association Campaign for Dark Skies
Title: Light pollution modelling for the UK Highways Agency new environmental impact policy, and for a sea based wind farm project. - Barentine, John. International Dark-Sky Association, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Title: The Rewards and Challenges of protecting International Dark Sky Places - Chapman, Mike. Sydney Outdoor Lighting Improvement Society (SOLIS), Australia
Title: The future of lighting is better if it’s dim. How the new technologies of lighting can be used for required and sufficient levels of illumination.
- Meier, Josiane and Henckel, Dietrich. Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Germany
Title: Lighting Conflicts: High Noon Ahead?
- Mohar, Andrej. Dark-Sky Slovenia, Slovenia
Title: Achievements and consequences of light pollution legislation in Slovenia
- Morgan-Taylor, Martin. Principal Lecturer in Law, de Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Title: Global Approaches to the Regulation of Light Pollution
- Pecingina, Mihai R. and Jean-François Longchamps. International Dark Sky Association, Québec, Canada
Title: The control of the effects of the artificial light at night - doing its part
- Ribas, Salvator J. Parc Astronòmic Montsec, Consell Comarcal de la Noguera, Balaguer, Spain
Title: First estimation of social and economic impacts of dark skies in Montsec
Ribas-Video: Light polution on earth seen from space
- Sánchez de Miguel, Alejandro. Dep. Astrofísica y CC. De la Atmósfera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Title: Cities at night: a citizen science program to make a color map of the world.
- Welch, David. Chair, Dark Skies Advisory Group, (IUCN), Ottawa, Canada
Title: Protected places and the night sky, a match made in heaven
Technology & Design
- Clanton, Nancy. Clanton & Associates, Inc. Boulder, Colorado, USA
Title: Assessing than Mitigating (Skyglow Measurements to Lighting Ordinances)
- Dannemann, Etta. Philips Color Kinetics, Berlin, Germany
Title: From concept to product – who decides on fixtures?
- Freyssinier, Jean-Paul. Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Title: Using Uniformity to Optimize Parking Lot Lighting
- Dechesne, Roland G. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Calgary Centre, Canada
Title: Light Pollution from Greenhouses – a Global Problem with Some Possible Mitigation Strategies
- Lavallée, Jean-Pierre. LEKLA, Canada
Title: New Optical Filter
- Morin-Paulhus, Antoine, Roby, Johanne. Light Pollution Group, Cégep de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Title: Spectral Indices based on biological processes sensitivity to handle lighting applications
- Rodriguez, Christophe. Engineering Faculty, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Title: Improvement of LED performance by Increasing Light Extraction Efficiency: An example of how to stimulate college students to research in engineering through advanced micro-nano-fabrication improvements
- _Schulte-Römer, Nona. WZB – Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
Title: LED lighting in Berlin and Lyon: How publics shape innovation
- Tousignant, Nathalie. Philips, Canada
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Poster
Walker, Constance E. National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, California, AZ, USA
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