ECOlight - Emergent impacts on COastal areas: adding the role of light pollution to the management and protection of ocean commons (EUROMARINE Foresight WorkShop. Pisa, 20-22 January 2020) (https://www.euromarinenetwork.eu/activities/emergent-impacts-coastal-areas)

The aim of ECOlight was to bring together scientists from a variety of fields, which shared a common interest in the emerging topic of light pollution in marine coastal habitats. Marine coastal areas host highly productive ecosystems that are threatened by the high rate of urban development and associated stressors affecting ecosystem processes, including the artificial light at night (ALAN). In the future, potential impacts of ALAN are predicted to worsen, due to a large sensitivity of ecosystems to blue emissions caused by increasingly used LEDs and the exacerbation of cascading effects through trophic interactions. The overall objective of ECOlight was to identify the key concepts regarding the effects of ALAN on coastal systems, by focusing on three main themes: 1) artificial light at night and cumulative human pressures; 2) microbiomes; 3) advancing coastal observation. ECOlight brought together 27 participants from 9 countries. Scientists represented a variety of fields, including marine ecology, marine biology, physics, physiology and microbiology. One of the main outcomes of ECOlight was the formalization of the GLOW network.

ALAN 2021 (e-Conference) - 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AT NIGHT (15-17 June 2021) (http://www.artificiallightatnight.org/)

A poster has been presented at the ALAN 2021 e-conference, about the activities of GLOW [Download]