My educational background is in environmental and land planning engineering (MS 1993), and hydrology (PhD 1997), with a specialization in Geographic Information Systems and environmental databases. In parallel, since 1986 I have been actively interested in music, which I eventually started to use as an element of my activities around 2006, an lately with an … Continue reading In a nutshell
Following the June 30, event about protection and promotion of the night sky at the Museum of Vine and Wine in Roccastrada, Southern Tuscany, the BuioMetria Partecipativa project left on site one of their sky quality meters. At the end of the presentation, the Municipality agreed to turn of the public lighting in the central … Continue reading The first night sky quality monitoring campaign by the Museum of vine and wine in Roccastrada, Tuscany
The fourth international conference on Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) was held in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) from Sep. 26 to Sep. 28. The event was organized by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the COST Action ES1204 LoNNe, Loss of the Night Network. Since 2013 this event has drawn experts and scientists from all over the … Continue reading The Fourth International Conference on Artificial Light at Night
Presented in the “Cities in balance with nature” session at the Ecocity World Summit 2015 in Abu Dhabi Giacomelli, A., Bartalucci, A., Spinosi, C. The BuioMetria Partecipativa (BMP) project started in 2008 to encourage citizens to collect quantitative data on light pollution as a strategy for environmental awareness raising. The emission of light from … Continue reading The Buiometria Partecipativa Project: Participatory Night Sky Quality Monitoring In Italy. Helping To Liaise Cities And Rural Areas And To Re-Define Citizen Perception Of Artificial Light At Night (2015)
In Italy we say “Your first love is never forgotten”. This applies also to conferences. The first event which I attended as my own business decision, and not because somebody told me was the 1997 edition of the ASITA national conference. ASITA is an association resulting from the joint venture of four national association focused … Continue reading The ASITA 2015 final program in a nutshell, according to pibinko
NOTE (July 8, 2015): Below is the message I sent to the GFOSS.it (Italian OSGEO Chapter) Board, proposing to merge GFOSS.it with another association, ASSOLI. From this proposal several steps originated, both within GFOSS.it, and in relation to other organizations involved in free/open source awareness raising in Italy (especially in the form of a half-day … Continue reading No longer alone
“…sometimes you need to be “harsh” to make sure that the law is applied” said Leopoldo dalla Gassa, the President of VenetoStellato, a non-profit association which has been active for years in the topic of light pollution in the region of Veneto, in the North-East of Italy. by Andrea Giacomelli AG: Leopoldo, tell us how … Continue reading BMP interviews #2: Leopoldo Dalla Gassa
TO BE TRANSLATED ‘ Sintesi estrema di questa storia, se non avete tempo: Mariano di Scalvaia (al centro nella foto di testa) 1 – Ecosistema Culturale Nazionale 0. Altrimenti, proseguite, sulle note dei Seguridad Social Nel 2014 varie città italiane concorrevano per definire quale sarebbe stata la candidata a capitale europea della cultura 2019. Fu … Continue reading With Bob and Mariano at S. Maria alla Scala for the Siena Capital of Culture Workshop
EDITORIAL NOTE: This is the first of a series of interviews by Andrea Giacomelli to experts in the field of artificial light at night. The idea of the interviews was initially proposed by Andrea as one of the dissemination actions in the context of the Loss of the Night Network. It is in any case … Continue reading BMP interviews #1: Estefanía Cañavate García
Andrea GIACOMELLI, Luciano MASSETTI, Francesco SABATINI, Elena MAGGI, Participatory Dark Sky Quality Monitoring from Italy: interactions between awareness raising and research, International Journal of Sustainable Lighting (Vol. 35, no. 1) – Feb. 2017 Christopher C. M. Kyba, Kai Pong Tong, Jonathan Bennie, Ignacio Birriel, Jennifer J. Birriel, Andrew Cool, Arne Danielsen, Thomas W. Davies, Peter … Continue reading Publications