Penn State Brandywine

Lexi is one of our graduate assistants here for our program.

She is, it's her first semester with us, but she's coming from Penn State Brandywine, right? And you graduated with a communication and media studies degree? Yeah.

Wow.

So you're making a transition into sport.

So you have some experience there.

And then I'm also looking at this deep dive.

I see you were social media chair for Penn State Brandywine softball.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, uh, state, Penn State Brandywine professor and Westchester Green Team member, Tim Lawler, was, uh, interviewed by WHYY, uh, last month and talking about light pollution, uh, and how we can, uh, what we can do to kind of- Combat that, and, you know, as you said, uh, the solutions a- in this area are really, they're not big, he says.

You know, we're not asking, we're not asking an industry to stop using fossil flu- fu- fuel.

We just say, "Turn down your lights, and use warmer lights, and shut them off if you can." That's it.

According to Globe at Night, an international citizen science campaign, the average night sky grew nearly 10% brighter each year from 2011 to 2022.

Tim Lawler, a physics professor at Penn State Brandywine says he knows why.

an unintended consequence of these new LED lights.

He credits LEDs for being more cost and energy efficient than previous lights.