CSU Project #: 5-34184
Sponsor: National Park Service (NPS)
Primary Investigator: Dr. Jenny Hand
Start Date: August 31st, 2011
End Date: August 31st, 2013

• • Test, deploy, and critique new instrumentation, including recently acquired Night Sky Brightness Meters (NSBMs). Deploy for one year alongside air quality instrumentation. Analyze and report on the ability of the instrument to track sky brightness accurately and resolve the relationship between atmospheric extinction and artificial night sky brightness.
• • Conduct field visits to national park sites for inventory and quantification of night sky visibility in order to complete all Class I airsheds by mid 2012. Provide other technical assistance as needed to agency on topics such as light pollution physics, outdoor lighting mitigation, ecological impacts of artificial light, and outreach strategies.
• • Promote education and understanding of light pollution, and promote an appreciation for natural night skies.
• • Prepare existing data for inclusion into the Federal Land Manager's Environmental Database, in order to display imagery, descriptive statistics, metrics, and metadata; as well as including data in the VIEWS air quality database viewer.

  ** No Progress Report **