Director’s Discretionary Award
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dark Skies is the first dark-sky parliamentary group in British history, consisting of parliamentarians of all parties from both the House of Commons and House of Lords.
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Dark Sky Place of the Year Award
Mount-Mégantic International Dark Sky Reserve was the world’s very first International Dark Sky Reserve certified by the International Dark-Sky Association. Since its designation in 2007, its team has been working tirelessly to lead the changes for dark sky practices within its community and for the whole province of Quebec.
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Nocturnal Habitat Protection Award
The Migratory Species Section of the Department of Agriculture, Water, and Environment sponsored and managed the development of the National Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife in Australia. This is the first time globally any national regulator has published guidance (in English) on light pollution with respect to wildlife.
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Rising Star Award
Emma took on an ambitious project to educate students about light pollution in a highly engaging way as a high school senior who wanted to earn her Girl Scout Gold Award – she created a curriculum program called Fight for the Stars: Be a Knight for the Night. Emma worked tirelessly to develop the curriculum, handouts, and produce teaching videos that would engage both students and adults.
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Dark Sky Defender Award
Dr. Noorali Jiwaji has spent many years as an educator and has taken a keen interest over the years to promote astronomy and developing astronomy in East Africa. Through his work, Dr. JIwaji has raised awareness about the effects of light pollution and the importance of protecting dark skies. He has played an especially integral role in educating children.
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Lighting Design and Technical Innovation Award
Research conducted by Crossroads LED regarding the outdoor illumination requirements for cities concluded that no company offered an LED street light that would meet the dark sky lighting needs of cities interested in significantly reducing sky glow, light trespass, and light pollution.
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Bob Gent Community Leadership Award
Nobuaki has worked diligently over many years to protect the night in Japan. Through his work, he has had a profound impact on the dark sky movement in his home country.
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Galileo Award
Salvador Bará is professor of Optics at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Galicia (Spain, European Union). He is a leading expert in visual optics, lighting, and light pollution research.
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The Dr. Arthur Hoag and William T. Robinson Award
Robert Dick has contributed an extraordinary effort to light pollution reduction for over 25 years in Canada and worldwide. After a multi-year process that included an intensive and extensive assessment of peer-reviewed literature across many science disciplines, Robert then integrated this knowledge into a consistent and rational set of quantitative guidelines…
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Crawford Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award
Included in his many accomplishments, Jaime is a driving force of light pollution research in Europe with a clear focus on the promotion of dark skies and the use of community science (such as STARS4ALL and ACTION project) to develop activities around dark skies.
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CMG Change of Chairmanship
EFC would like to thank Tony DeCicco, Director of Sales, Intermatic Canada, for his long standing chairmanship role with CEMRA Manufacturing Group (CMG).
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CSC LED announces new Atlantic Canada Sales Agency: Catalyst Sales and Marketing
CSC LED is proud to welcome Catalyst Sales and Marketing as their new sales agency in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. “We, at CSC LED, are thrilled to welcome the rapidly growing team at Catalyst Sales and Marketing to the CSC family.
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Liteline is expanding it’s team
Liteline announced two more additions to the Liteline team! Despite the challenges faced by the company during the pandemic, the company is pleased to welcome Campbell Douglas and Scott Major to Liteline Corporation.
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A new role for Nicole Griffo at Stanpro ( Standard Products Inc.)
Salma Siddiqui, Director of Sales at Stanpro announced the promotion of Nicole Griffo to the position of Assistant Regional Sales manager. She started in her new role as of October 4.
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LEDucation 2022 Call for Speakers
LEDucation is currently accepting proposals for the March 2022 educational program.
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
