Learn the task and do some work for the project (ie. Classification). What was your impression of it? (2-3 sentences)
Globe at Night’s goal is to raise awareness to the effects that light pollution has on us and our world. As well, they have a goal of teaching about the constellations in the skies and give date ranges for you to experience some of them yourself.
Who are the researchers, what fields of science and engineering to they represent, and what do they provide?
Globe at night is an international citizen-science initiative led by the United States’ National Science Federation (NSF) under the NOIRLab division, specializing in astronomy.
What is the role of the non-scientists/citizens in this project?
The citizens play a massive role in the project as it is their role to collect and analyze all of the data from their area and submit it to the website.
What does your project monitor and how? (Hint: look for the “About” section, science section, blog section and/or similar pages of the project website to provide more detail on this.)
Globe at Night monitors light pollution using both visibility of star constellations as well as light readers.
Why are the researchers monitoring it? In other words, what does the information they collect help them make more informed decisions about? (1-2 sentences)
The researchers are collecting this data to try to help spread awareness of the negative impacts that light pollution has on us and the environment.
How does this project benefit society? Say more than just that it provides knowledge. What practical purpose might it have? If the website does not give any hint, think about it and think of a way that it could possibly be used to benefit society. (2-3 sentences)
This project benefits society by helping us recognize the impacts light pollution has had on us. This would lead to us learning how we can change our designs and architecture in the future to help limit light pollution even more.