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eALAN conference 2021 - June 15-June 17, 2021 online
The eALAN conference  2021 will take place in a Gather.town environment designed by Virtual Chair. For 

Arranging a 3 day online conference has been a new challenge for us, so we would like to thank all of you for the understanding you've shown so far!

All contributed oral presentations at the ALAN conference are pre-recorded. The videos will be available on demand to all participants within the gather.town environment, and will also be streamed as part of "watch parties", where the participants who are present can discuss the talk in the breaks between automatic video plays.

The schedule offers two live sessions per conference day, and we expect that no matter where you live in the world at least one of the sessions should be convenient for you to attend.
The contributed talks are pre-recorded, and can be viewed at any time you choose. The live sessions will be recorded, so you will also be able to watch the invited speaker talks and panel discussions that took place when you could not attend live.The conference room will also stay open for at least half a day after the official conference end, so it will be possible to catch up on anything you missed regardless of where you live.


​All eALAN 2020 authors will also be invited to submit a full article based on their results to the International Journal of Sustainable Lighting (IJSL). For more information contact dorin.beu@insta.utcluj.ro

Registration
In case you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible, as you will not be able to join the online conference facility without registering. to register, click here

The late registration fees for eALAN 2021 are as follows:

Standard registration: 150€
Student registration: 50€


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Attendee guide

This guide will show you in detail (including screenshots) how to enter the panel discussions (these are in Zoom, but are only accessible from the gather.town environment).
How to connect to eALAN
Instructions to connect to the eALAN conference:
Shortly before the conference, you will receive the link to the venue. This link can only be opened after verifying the email address which you used for the registration.

If you have not received it, check your spam email, and if it is not there, please contact Sibylle Schroer.

​Help with the gather.town environment is available 24 hours from the helpdesk, or by email. 
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Gather.town Welcome Video

Take a moment to watch this welcome video. It will help you get familiar with the platform and what to expect.  ​

​ALAN 2021 Program
The ALAN 2021 preliminary schedule is now available. Click here the see the program or see below.

Download the ALAN 2021 Conference Handbook. Click here.
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Access to the venue: https://www.virtualchair.net/events/alan-2021

Note: Once you are in the venue, you can find the times of all of the events will be visible in your local time zone by clicking on the calendar icon on the left of your screen. 
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A Sessions 8:00-11:00 UTC

Sydney:         18:00-20:00 oral, 20:00-21:00 poster 
Hong Kong:   16:00-18:00 oral, 18:00-19:00 poster 
New Dehli:     13:30-15:30 oral, 15:30-16:30 poster 
Athens:          11:00-13:00 oral, 13:00-14:00 poster 
Berlin:            10:00-12:00 oral, 12:00-13:00 poster 
London:          9:00-11:00 oral, 11:00-12:00 poster 
New York:       4:00-6:00 oral, 6:00-7:00 poster 
Los Angeles:  1:00-3:00 oral, 3:00-4:00 poster 
Honolulu:        22:00-00:00 oral, 00:00-1:00 poster 
B Sessions 16:00-19:00 UTC
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Sydney:          2:00-4:00 oral, 4:00-5:00 poster (next day!) 
Hong Kong:    0:00-2:00 oral, 2:00-3:00 poster (next day!) 
New Dehli:      21:30-23:30 oral, 23:30-0:30 poster 
Athens:           19:00-21:00 oral, 21:00-22:00 poster 
Berlin:             18:00-20:00 oral, 20:00-21:00 poster 
London:           17:00-19:00 oral, 21:00-12:00 poster 
New York:        12:00-14:00 oral, 14:00-15:00 poster 
Los Angeles:   9:00-11:00 oral, 11:00-12:00 poster 
Honolulu:         6:00-8:00 oral, 8:00-9:00 poster 
​Watch parties 

Watch party 1: 05:00-07:40 UTC (before A session plenary)
Watch party 2: 11:30-14:10 UTC (between A and B sessions)
Watch party 3: 19:30-22:10 UTC (after B session posters)


​Note: : the watch parties will not be officially moderated. Authors are invited to attend to answer questions between talks at any of the showings that are convenient for them. If the author is not there, feel free to have a discussion with the other participants while waiting for the next talk to start.
Session 1A - June 15, 8:00-11:00 UTC 
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Chair: Chu Wing So, The University of Hong Kong 
Welcome speech by Salvador Ribas 
Instructions for participating: Sibylle Schroer 
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Invited speaker: Salvador Bará, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 
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Pre-recorded video presentations:  
    Fernando Jauregui: Living the Pyrenean night 
    Salvador Ribas: ASTMON and Sky Quality Camera: two devices and the same sky, but same results? 

Panel topic: “Are the years of peace over?” 

Additional panel members: Costis Bouroussis, Nona Schulte-Römer, Sibylle Schroer 

Posters: 
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​Session 1B - June 15, 16:00-19:00 

Chair: Martin Morgan-Taylor, De Montfort University 
Welcome to the conference: Salvador Ribas 
Instructions for participating: Sibylle Schroer 

Invited speaker: Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University 

Pre-recorded video presentations:  
    Jeanne Bloch: Impact of light pollution on human imagination 
    Taylor Stone: Light Touch: A Design Strategy for Responsible Urban Park Lighting Anna Apró: The light pollution and the UN         
​                          Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2030) 

Panel topic: “Recognizing light as a local and global environmental change”
Additional panel members: Anna Apró, Jeanne Bloch, Taylor Stone 

Announcement of ALAN 2023 location 
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Posters:  
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​Day 1 watch party 
​The starting time (in UTC) for each of the presentations is shown below
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​Session 2A - June 16, 8:00-11:00 UTC

Chair: Eva Schernhammer, Medical University of Vienna & Harvard Medical School 

Invited speaker: Maria Angeles Rol, University of Murcia 

Pre-recorded video presentations:  
  Eric Sanders: The Impact of Image Resolution on Power, Bias, and Confounding: A simulation study of ambient light at night exposure 
  Johanne Roby: An Urban Starry Sky Oasis in the Heart of the City of Sherbrooke, Canada 

Panel topic: “Healthy communities and ecosystems” 
Additional panel members: Anat Barnea, Anupama Yadav, Johanne Roby 
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Posters: 
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Session 2B - June 16, 16:00-19:00 UTC

Chair: Héctor Antonio Solano Lamphar, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología 

Invited speaker: Li-Wei Hung, US National Parks Service 

Pre-recorded video presentations:  
    Martin Aubé: The radiative transfer model Illumina v2.0: Added features and capabilities 
    Hector Linares: Sky brightness simulation with Illumina over locations from the Pyrenees La Nuit Project 
    Zoltán Kolláth: Mapping the risk of the degradation of sky quality and the potential biological effects at dark sky places and protected 
​                            area 

Panel topic: “Measurement and modeling of outdoor light” 
Additional panel members: Hector Linares, Martin Aubé, Zoltán Kolláth 

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Posters: 
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Day 2 watch party 
​The starting time (in UTC) for each of the presentations is shown below
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Session 3A - June 17, 8:00-11:00 UTC 

Chair: Catherine Perez Vega, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries 

Poster prize winner announcement: Franz Hölker 

Invited speakers: Mark Major, Speirs Major 

Pre-recorded video presentations:  
    Georgia MacMillan: Learning from Newport, Ireland 
    Aleš Šubic: Reasons for the failure of light pollution prevention legislation in Slovenia Andreas Hänel: Fraction and change of public
​                       lighting in Preussisch-Oldendorf, Germany 
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Panel topic: “Recent and future changes in outdoor lighting” 
Additional panel members: Andreas Hänel, Aleš Šubic, Georgia MacMillan 


​Session 3B - June 17, 16:00-19:00 UTC
 

Chair: Murry Burgess, North Carolina State University 

Invited speaker: Maja Grubisic, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries 

Pre-recorded video presentations:  
    Janine Bolliger: Contrasting effects of street-light shapes and LED color temperatures on nocturnal insects and bats 
    Festus Kehinde: Testes histo-morphological changes in laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus, exposed to Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) 
    Keren Levy: Artificial Light at Night affects the timing of stridulation and locomotion behavior in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus 

​Panel topic: “Biology & Ecology” 
Additional panel members: Brett Seymoure, Elena Maggi, Elizabeth Rehbein 
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ALAN 2021 Farewell: Christopher Kyba 

​Day 3 watch party
​The starting time (in UTC) for each of the presentations is shown below. 
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Organizers
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CONFERENCE CONTACT    
Parc Astronòmic Montsec
Consell Comarcal de la Noguera
Balaguer, Lleida, Spain
E-mail: darksky@parcastronomic.cat
Webpage: www.parcastronomic.cat 

The ALAN Steering Committee and local organisers of ALAN 2020/2021 organise the eALAN 2021 event:


Dr. Constantinos A. Bouroussis, National Technical University of Athens · Lighting Laboratory, Greece · Athens
Mr. Roberto Corradini, Lighting Design Workshop, Italy
Dr. Dietrich Henckel, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Franz Hölker, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
Ms. Bettymaya Foott, International Dark-Sky Association, Tucson Arizona
Dr. Christopher Kyba (chair),  Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Mr. Fernando Jáuregui, Planetario de Pamplona -NICDO, Spain
Dr. Martin Morgan-Taylor, Leicester De Montfort Law School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Dr. Salvador J. Ribas, Parc Astronòmic Montsec - Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya & Universitat de Barcelona​, Spain
Dr. Johanne Roby, Département de chimie, Cégep de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Dr. Eva Schernhammer, Department of Epidemiology, Medical University Vienna, Center for Public Health, Vienna.
Dr. Sibylle Schroer,  Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany



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