Travis Longcore
Dr. Travis Longcore is Adjunct Professor and Co-Chair of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Science Director of The Urban Wildlands Group, and an independent ecological design and environmental policy consultant. He holds an Honors B.A. from the University of Delaware, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA, all in geography. He is co-editor of the 2006 book Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting and author of over 35 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on light pollution. In 2022, he received the Galileo Award from the International Dark-Sky Association “in recognition of outstanding achievements in research or academic work on light pollution over a multiple-year period.”