Since 2010 I collaborate with Luciano Massetti, Senior Researcher at the Biometeorology Institute of the Italian National Research Council (Florence facility). Between 2010 and 2012 we have shared the experience in working groups for the creation of the data specifications for the European Commission’s INSPIRE directive. Between 2014 and 2016 we have been representatives for … Continue reading Luciano Massetti
During our last “M’illumino di Meno” we explained that Luciano Massetti from the Italian Research Council’s Institute of Bioeconomy could not participate directly to the BuioMetria Partecipativa events due to the overlap with a mission to the Svalbard Islands. In fact, his goal was to deploy a night sky quality sensor. We did check with … Continue reading A Video by CNR IBE Featuring a “BuioMetro” in the Svalbard Islands
Thanks to Luciano Massetti of the Italian Research Council Bioeconomy Institute, who is a historical collaborator of the BMP project, we are glad to add to our “classical” measures (i.e. those made with manual measurements by citizens), a new information layer. This is represented by the location of fixed stations that CNR IBE has been … Continue reading The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now includes the CNR IBE Research Network
This is an article by our BuioMetria Partecipativa partner Luciano Massetti from the Institute of Bioeconomy at the National Research Council in Florence, which I am glad to share: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/9/2052 For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228 Soundtrack: Il cielo è di tutti (the sky is everybody’s), Jug Band Colline Metallifere cover:
Welcome to the multimedia instant movie called Musical Participatory Phenology. If in the course of time you have followed the story on BuioMetria Partecipativa (since 2008) or, during the first lockdown you followed Litologia Partecipativa (March-May 2020) and if you know what is phenology, you might already have some hints of what this is about… … Continue reading Musical Participatory Phenology
Luciano Massetti, from the Italian Research Council’s Institute of Bioeconomy in Florence, has published on the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer and article analysing three years of data collected through the night sky quality meter network deployed since 2016 in Tuscany. The network currently has sensors in Sesto Fiorentino (right next to Florence), … Continue reading Drivers of artificial light at night variability in urban, rural and remote areas
The proceedings of the 11th Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth, held in September 2019 in Florence, Italy, have been published. In the proceedings you also find an article about the presentation given by Andrea Giacomelli (co-authored by Elena Maggi and Luciano Massetti) on BuioMetria Partecipativa. The article is available from this page … Continue reading An Italian interdisciplinary citizen observatory for the protection and promotion of night skies on year 12 of its evolution: challenges and opportunities from a Digital Earth perspective
For more information: bmp@pibinko.org or +393317539228 On March 13, 2019, in the stunning set of the Osservatorio Ximeniano in Florence (the first astronomical observatory in the city, founded in 1756), a workshop was organized by the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council, the Department of Biology from the University of Pisa, and the … Continue reading Operational perspectives on protection and promotion of the night sky after the Capraia International Symposium – a report on the March 13, 2019 Workshop in Florence, Italy
by Luciano Massetti – CNR IBIMET Firenze (l.massetti@ibimet.cnr.it) DARKNESS was the topic discussed during the full arctic night in Longyearbyen, the northernmost city of the world (latitude ~ 78° N), in the Svalbard Islands, North of Norway. The conference had over 90 experts from 22 countries, dealing with the topic of darkness from multiple angles. … Continue reading Darkness Conference at the Svalbard Islands, Jan. 15/16 2019: how did it go?
TO BE TRANSLATED La terza giornata del Festival è stata tutto sommato defaticante rispetto alla seconda. Abbiamo avuto la presenza di quattordici delegati del Coordinamento Associazioni Astrofile della Toscana, cui abbiamo avuto modo di presentare alcuni colleghi che non conoscevano, come il presidente della AAT (Associazione Astrofili di Torniella), il presidente della AAPB (Associazione Astrofili … Continue reading Third Farma Valley Winter Fest: Day 3 and Epilogue