The Battle Against Light Pollution will be held on Thursday, May 17 at 6 PM in the Port Angeles Library Carver Meeting Room, 2210 South Peabody Street. It is being hosted by the Sierra Club North Olympic Group as part of its free series of public programs.
Come peer through the lens of the International Dark-Sky Association — its efforts to combat light pollution and recognize Dark Sky Preserves.
Explore light pollution causes, effects on wildlife and human health, and its carbon footprint.
Learn some astronomy and about our connection to the night sky.
Hear how to effectively fight and eliminate light pollution.
It’s a fight we can win, if we have the will, say David W. Ingram, Chapter Leader of Dark Skies Northwest (DSNW and John L. Goar, Astronomy Outreach Volunteer for Olympic National Park and member of the International Dark-Sky Association. (IDA)
The IDA is a non-profit organization based in Tucson, AZ. It is dedicated to preserving the natural nighttime environment by educating policymakers and the public about night sky conservation and promoting environmentally friendly methods to provide minimally intrusive outdoor lighting.
Ingram’s leadership covers Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. His work as an IDA chapter leader includes education and public outreach presentations and support and empowerment to private citizens, conservation and environmental organizations, schools, local, state and national organizations.
Ingram retired from the Boeing Company after a 34-year career in aviation and space technology. His personal focus on science, the night sky and amateur astronomy began in Indiana during his high school years in the mid-1960s. Over the past decades, he has joined numerous astronomy societies and related organizations and now serves as the Boeing Employees’ Astronomical Society President, the Seattle Astronomical Society Vice President of Education, and the IDA/Dark Skies Northwest (DKNW) representative to a number of astronomy societies in the Puget Sound area. In addition to his IDA chapter leader duties with
DKNW, Ingram provides volunteer time to the summer astronomy program at Glacier National Park in Montana. Learn more at <www.darksky.org>
John L. Goar teaches high school science at North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo WA. In addition to being the Astronomy Outreach Volunteer for Olympic National Park, and winning the 2016 George and Helen Hartzog Volunteer National Park Service Award, Goar is an officer of the Olympic Astronomical Society and the Astronomical League (Binocular Messier Program Coordinator and Asteroid Observing Program Coordinator), as well as Secretary of the Olympic Astronomical Society, Bremerton, WA.
Goar is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. As a student project, he built a 12.5 inch Dobsonian telescope, and later built a 20 inch diameter mirror scope. Goar has been an amateur astronomer since 2000, and is passionate about preserving dark night skies. He has led free public telescope programs at Hurricane Ridge for eight summers, while also leading full moon hikes to Hurricane Hill.
Goar is a certified master observer with the Astronomical League, a confederation of astronomy clubs in the US. Hwas also awarded the Presidential Lifetime Service Award in 2017 by President Barack Obama.
Information and a schedule for summer astronomy programs in 2018 can be found at his website: <www.olympictelescope.com>
David W. Ingram John L. Goar
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Contact: Darlene Schanfald
Sierra Club North Olympic Group
360-681-7565
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