Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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Poster

Symbol O (Public) » Public

[O-02] Poster presentations by senior high school students

Sun. May 22, 2016 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL6)

Convener:*Tatsuhiko Hara(International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute), Miwa Kuri(International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University), Keiko Konya(Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Hajime Naruse(Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University), Kou Yamada(Waseda University)

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM

[O02-P15] Quantification of Light Pollution

*Ikumasa FURUKAWA1, Rikuto HONDA1, Motoya KOBE1, Yuno FUJII1, Erika NISHIMURA1, Taisei HIGASHIMOTO1, *Haruki IWAMITSU1, Rika MARUYAMA1, Ryoga MAEDA1 (1.Higashichikushi Gakuen High School)

Keywords:sky-glow, rate of sky-glow variation by time, light pollution, quantification

We can watch stars clearly in the mountains, but we can't watch them clearly in the urban areas. So we were interested in light pollution, and we have been researching for sky-glow since 2002.
Light pollution is that artificial lights exert bad effects upon environment. From the research by our seniors, we realized sky-glow is had major effects by the weather conditions and the environmental index.
J.Bortle and S.Albers researched for quantifying the dark night sky in 2001, but the "LPI-S" we defined is quantification of the night sky brightened by artificial lights.
We want to enlighten light pollution using LPI-S not only in Japan but also all over the world, we hope to reduce wasteful energy.