Contact Information for Dark Skies Awareness
Constance (Connie) Walker, Ph. D
Chair (USA, NOAO)
950 N. Cherry Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719 USA
(520) 318-8535
cwalker@noao.edu
Task Groups and Cooperating Institutions
International Dark Skies Task Group
Connie Walker (USA,NOAO) - Chair
| Viviana Bianchi | Argentina | viviana_bianchi@hotmail.com |
| Beatriz Garcia | Argentina | beatrizgarciautn@gmail.com |
| Robert Hollow | Australia | Robert.Hollow@csiro.au |
| Helen Sim | Australia | Helen.Sim@csiro.au |
| Thomas Posch | Austria | posch@astro.univie.ac.at |
| Guenther Wuchterl | Austria | gwuchterl@tls-tautenburg.de |
| Friedel Pas | Belgium | europe@darksky.org |
| Tasso Napoleao | Brazil | tassonapoleao@ig.com.br |
| Robert Dick | Canada | rdick@ccs.carleton.ca |
| Ken Tapping | Canada | Ken.Tapping@nrc.gc.ca |
| Carmen Gloria Jimenez | Chile | youhyax@yahoo.com |
| Pedro Sanhueza | Chile | psanhueza@opcc.cl |
| Cristian Goez | Colombia | crisgote2005@hotmail.com |
| Roger Ferlet | France | ferlet@iap.fr |
| Alain Legue | France | alain.legue@wanadoo.fr |
| Andreas Haneal | Germany | Haenel@osnabrueck.de |
| Rosa Doran | GHOU | rosa.doran@gmail.com |
| Sze-Leung Cheung | Hong Kong | csl@hokoon.edu.hk |
| Margarita Metaxa | Greece | m-metaxa@otenet.gr |
| Kollath Zoltan | Hungary | kollath@konkoly.hu |
| Robert Hill | Ireland | rabhill@hotmail.com |
| Albert White | Ireland | albert.white@gmail.com |
| Fabio Falchi | Italy | falchi@lightpollution.it |
| Stefania Varano | Italy | s.varano@ira.inaf.it |
| Alessandra Zanazzi | Italy | zanazzi@cittadellascienza.it |
| Shigemi Uchida | Japan | suchida@mvc.biglobe.ne.jp |
| Steve Butler | New Zealand | s_butler@xtra.co.nz |
| Maria Luisa Aguilar Hurtado | Peru | ml_aguilarh@yahoo.es |
| Julia Romanowska | Poland | romju57@gmail.com |
| Tomasz Wierzchowski | Poland | tomasz.wierzchowski@gmail.com |
| Dan Hillier | Scotland | djh@roe.ac.uk |
| Nikola Bozic | Serbia | bozicn@gmail.com |
| Pavol Duris | Slovakia | pavuk@8mag.net |
| Andrej Mohar | Slovenia | darksky@tp-lj.si |
| Kevin Govender | South Africa | kg@saao.ac.za |
| Sivuyile Manxoyl | South Africa | sivuyile@saao.ac.za |
| Cipriano Marin | Spain | cmarin@unescocan.org |
| Noorali Jiwaji | Tanzania | ntjiwaji@yahoo.com |
| Zeki Aslan | Turkey | z.aslan@iku.edu.tr |
| Darren Baskill | United Kingdom | dbaskill@googlemail.com |
| Steven Owens | Unted Kingdom | sto@roe.ac.uk |
| Sue Ann Heatherly | United States | sheatherly@nrao.edu |
| Terry Mann | United States | starsrus2@earthlink.net |
| Kim Patten | United States | kim@darksky.org |
US Dark Skies Working Group
Connie Walker (chair), NOAO / GLOBE at Night
Robert Dick (advisor), Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Malcolm Smith (advisor), AURA, CTIO, IAU Commission 50
Bob Crelin, Glarebuster (light fixture) Inventor; Author
Carter Smith, Light pollution research with Sky Quality Meters
Chad Moore, National Park Service
Chris Walker, Activist and Philanthropist
Chuck Bueter, Nightwise.org
Dan Brocious, Whipple Observatory
Dan Duriscoe, National Park Service
Dennis Ward, Windows to the Universe / GWWSC
Don Davis, Planetary Science Institute
Fred Schaaf, Sky and Telescope
Jennifer Barlow, National Dark Skies Week
Kim Patten, International Dark-Sky Association
Richard Wainscoat, Institute for Astronomy
Sue Ann Heatherly, NRAO
Terry Mann, Astronomical League
Ron Maddelena, NRAO
Cooperating Institutions:
The following institutions have been instrumental in working with the IYA2009 Cornerstone Project, Dark Skies Awareness. We wish to thank them for their ongoing support.
- Astronomers Without Borders
- Astronomical League
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific programs for IYA
- Astronomy from the Ground Up
- Earth Hour
- GLOBE at Night
- GWWSC
- How Many Stars
- International Dark-Sky Association
- International Sidewalk Astronomers
- Let there be Night
- NASA’s IYA web page
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory
- Night Sky Network
- Quiet Skies @ NRAO
- Starlight Initiative
- The World at Night