{"id":1956,"date":"2023-11-01T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/uscseagrant\/?page_id=1956"},"modified":"2023-11-17T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:02:03","slug":"blinded-by-the-light","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/uscseagrant\/blinded-by-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinded by the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          New technology shows artificial light impacts sensitive beach species\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern California has both rich coastal and marine biodiversity and also some of the brightest night skies on the planet. Artificial light at night disrupts a wide range of natural processes, including foraging, migration, predation, and settlement of animals. University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant funded a study to measure the quantity and distribution of nighttime coastal light pollution across Southern California using a novel system called the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sky Quality Camera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to understand how artificial nighttime light impacts sensitive species like grunion (fish species which lay eggs on beaches at night) and snowy plover (bird species which nest in sandy dune areas).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3><b>Key Results<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project confirmed that using satellite data for ground-level measurement of light pollution, traditionally used in ecological studies, is not as accurate as the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sky Quality Camera<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sky Quality Camera<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allows for extrapolation of artificial light pollution exposure across beaches\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Published the largest dataset of light pollution measurements in the world thus far<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Western Snowy Plover use the darkest beaches, and California Grunion use slightly brighter beaches<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Project Impacts &amp; Application:<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Coastal Commission used results to require certain projects to mitigate artificial light exposure<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers met regularly with the State Beach Ecology Coalition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team gave public presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, the International Dark Sky Week, the Texas Master Naturalist Annual Meeting, and the LuMinAves Interreg Project in the Canary Islands<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Principal Investigator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Travis Longcore, Ph.D., UCLA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Funding: <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOAA, 2018-2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Additional Info<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/travislongcore.net\/research\/light-pollution\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/travislongcore.net\/research\/light-pollution\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/hrYKJnDhD1ddP\/\">Light, Dark, Bird, Fish: Light Pollution and Landscape Ecology Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simons, A. L., Yin, X., &amp; <\/span><strong>Longcore, T.<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><b>2020<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). High correlation but high scale-dependent variance between satellite measured night lights and terrestrial exposure. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental Research Communications<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2), 21006-. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/2515-7620\/ab7501\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/2515-7620\/ab7501<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simons, A. L., Martin, K. L. M., &amp; <\/span><strong>Longcore, T.<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><b>2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Determining the Effects of Artificial Light at Night on the Distributions of Western Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) and California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) in Southern California. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Coastal Research<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">38<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2), 302\u2013309. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2112\/JCOASTRES-D-21-00107.1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2112\/JCOASTRES-D-21-00107.1<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"cta-link\" href=\"\/uscseagrant\/publications-database\/\">Access our Publications Database to view publications from this project or other related topics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--video-with-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component 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