Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 70.92
Liaison Amy Brunvand
Submission Date Sept. 12, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Utah
IN-48: Innovation B

Status Score Responsible Party
n/a 0.00 / Amy Brunvand
Librarian
Office of Sustainability

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ATTACHMENT
Journal of Dark Sky Studies Prologue, Summer 2019.

SOURCES
Lisa Potter, “University of Utah Launches First-Ever Journal of Dark Sky Studies, UNews, August 27, 2019, ”https://unews.utah.edu/journal-of-dark-sky-studies/

"Keck Foundation Funds U Dark Sky Studies", Imagine: The University of Utah Development Newsletter, Spring 2019. https://giving.utah.edu/imagine/keck-foundation-funds-u-dark-sky-studies/

Lisa Potter, “Dark Skies Studies: Utah’s Untapped Natural Resource,” Continuum, Spring 2019. https://continuum.utah.edu/features/dark-skies/

“World’s First Academic Center Dedicated to Dark Sky Studies,” International Dark Sky Association, February 14, 2017. https://www.darksky.org/worlds-first-academic-center-dedicated-to-dark-sky-studies/

RESEARCH
Adam, Dalton & Brian Pinkston, Fade to black: the impact of dark skies actions within the Colorado plateau region, CMP Capstone 2018 https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67m4vs2

Barentine, John, David Kieda, Stephen Goldsmith, Bettymaya Foott, and Janet Muir. "The Consortium for Dark Sky Studies: A Transdisciplinary Institute for Understanding the Loss of the Night." In American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts# 231, vol. 231. 2018.

Jellen, Nathan, Rediscovering the Urban Nightscape: an inventory of Moab and Grand County's Publicly-owned lighting fixtures, CMP Capstone 2018, https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63v441p

Kyba, Christopher CM, Sara B. Pritchard, A. Roger Ekirch, Adam Eldridge, Andreas Jechow, Christine Preiser, Dieter Kunz et al. "Night Matters–Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” is Needed." J: Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal, 2020, 3(1), 1-6; https://doi.org/10.3390/j3010001

Mendoza DL, Kieda DB, Harwood SA, Seth A, Ganesan V, Magargal K, Tsoutsounakis E, Cleeves JJ, and Goldsmith S, "Consortium for Dark Sky Studies Efforts Towards Improving Astronomical Observations", presented at the 235th American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, January 8, 2020.

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