Dario Canal, Simone Sandrucci and Pietro Marini from Etruschi from Lakota + Wolfgang Scheibe and pibinko
Dario Canal, Simone Sandrucci and Pietro Marini from Etruschi from Lakota + Wolfgang Scheibe and pibinko
Dario Canal, Simone Sandrucci and Pietro Marini from Etruschi from Lakota + Wolfgang Scheibe and pibinko
An evening with the Jug Band in action with songs spanning from Etruschi from Lakota, to blues, rock, and country covers. See the track list below…
Wolfgang Scheibe (bass), pibinko (snare drum), Dario Canal (lead vocals, washboard, acoustic guitar), Simone Sandrucci (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, backing vocals), Pietro “Piro” Marini (acoustic guitar, backing vocals)
Track list, and videos from the show:
Q: How did your involvement in the topic of light pollution start?
A: Everything started in 2011 when I arrived at the Leibniz-Institute IGB of Berlin. In that occasion I met Dr. Franz Hölker, mind and hand of the project “Verlust Der Nacht”, Dr. Stefano Larsen, and Dr. Michael Monaghan that introduced me to this topic. Before that, I have to admit, as most of the people I was not aware of how light pollution can be such an important treat for ecosystems. In 2013 I applied for a Research Fellowship of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program SMART, funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission. Together with funding also provided by the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, Germany (BMBF-033L038A) and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany (FKZ 3514821700). Everything was set to start my research study on Artificial Light at Night (ALAN).
Q: you have recently authored a publication about effects of artificial light at night in Ecology (“Artificial Light at Night Affects Organism Flux across Ecosystem Boundaries and Drives Community Structure in the Recipient Ecosystem“). Could you explain in simple terms the results you obtained?
R: This study shows that ALAN not only affect insect and spider behaviour but also changes the dynamics in ecosystems. The light attracts insects, in particularly aquatic insects, from a nearby ditch, and in turn changes the predatory communities of ground-dwelling invertebrates living in the grassland underneath the lights. Here, the activity of several nocturnal spiders and harvestmen increased under ALAN, likely indirectly attracted by the increased amount of “easy prey” in proximity of the lights. ALAN potentially can change cross-ecosystem fluxes at regional and global scales considering the number of street lights along streams and rivers and along the shores of lakes and wetlands. The presence of ALAN, as important ecological threat for natural ecosystems, should be carefully considered in landscape and urban planning as well as in restoration projects.
Q: Your plans for 2018?
R: I am planning to publish more research conducted during my PhD related to how artificial light affect predator-prey interactions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Since August 2017, I started a postdoc at the Umwelt Campus Birkenfeld, University of Trier in collaboration with the University of Duisburg-Essen where I actually work. In this new project I am focusing my research on fish communities and river restoration, planning to bring the ALAN topic also in this field where ALAN is still rarely considered in restoration actions. I will do my best.
Since October 2017 I am providing IT support to IRIS Ambiente for the design of trails. The support includes production of digital maps, report automation and spatial analysis via Geographic Information Systems.
Kudos to Wolfgang Scheibe (TattiStampa, in the old premises):
Please note: not all the weekly newsletters issued in the past 23 weeks have been translated into English…you can still review most of the initiatives and events presented in the English version of the news.
With the presentation of the 2017 BuioMetria Summer Campaign and the “Earth Observation Open Science” conference in Frascati on Sep. 28 we close a long season. This started in mid-December 2016 with the first Farma Valley Winter Fest and went on with over 30 initiatives during the following months, combining events and other projects, with a special focus on training (including high school internships and an Erasmus+ traineeship).
An outlook for this was written in November 2016 with a short rhyme (in Italian).
Summing it all up, you can have an idea of the story in different forms. Before you choose one, please remember that, if you like this series, but still have not supported it, you are encouraged to do so (write to info@pibinko.org to learn more about the options).
…where each symbol if the number of events at a location. The size of the symbol is proportional to the numbero of initiatives, with circles representing the pibinko.org/Attivarti.org activiies, and square representing other organizations with which we have collaborated as a minimum for their promotion.
…composed by snapshot of the images posted in our News section.
…in reverse chronological order, and mostly musical this year
also in reverse chronological order
…from our team to all thos who contributed to make things work. This is too much a long list to be included here. In addition to subjects clearly identified in the events, I need to mention the Torniella and Piloni communities (and especially Mario Straccali, Claudio Spinosi, Andrea Bartalucci, Antonella Pocci, Giorgio Panerati) and Marian Pricop.
More in general, thanks to all those who followed with interest the activities which we developed, and who have been enticed by the situazion emerged from the “Valley that’s not there” in the past ten years.
October will be a quiet month, and we will be planning the next season in the meantime!
For more information: info@pibinko.org.
The campaign for participatory night sky quality measurements and outreach events launched in May by the BuioMetria Partecipativa project with the National Research Council , Institute of Biometeorology and the Dept. of di Biology at the University of Pisa was presented on Sep. 28 2017 at the Earth Observation Open Science conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy.
More details on this event: http://eoopenscience.esa.int/
