Travis Longcore

@travislongcore.bsky.social

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Cities & nature, light pollution, species & landscape conservation, maps & spatial analysis 🌎 Adj. Prof. UCLA Inst. of the Environment and Sustainability

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · 6d

My projects have always done all-sky measurements under all conditions because I'm concerned with the effects on wildlife, as well as interested in seeing the stars. For example, this paper --> iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... where we show the influence of the % clouds on illuminance.

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Ricardo Rocha @ricardonature.bsky.social · 8d

In 2010-2013, conservation teams on #Chichijima - 1 of the main islands in the #Ogasawara chain - captured & removed 131 feral cats. The goal was to reduce predation pressure on an endangered pigeon. The results were immediate: adult pigeon numbers rose from 111 to 966 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 12d

A look at the devastating power loss across Jamaica following the historic crossing of Hurricane Melissa, captured by NOAA-21.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13d

TIL the National Environmental Policy Act is the only thing preventing Donald Trump from dropping nuclear weapons all over the American West.

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 13d

Good news everyone.

We have the EIS process to come to the rescue here, since I'm not joking, nuclear testing in the 70s and on was required to proceed an Environmental Impact Statement...

www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0331/...

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · 14d

The global biomass of mammals since 1850. On the bright side, a few more whales since the 1980s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · 14d

Healthy forests have native pollinators.

Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 15d

Allowing domestic bees in a national park is akin to letting cattle graze in it. If beekeepers wanted healthy forests they would not introduce a competitor to wild pollinators.

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 15d

Allowing domestic bees in a national park is akin to letting cattle graze in it. If beekeepers wanted healthy forests they would not introduce a competitor to wild pollinators.

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

Big thanks to @uclasustainablela.bsky.social at for funding the Heat Resilient LA project and @countyofla.bsky.social for their collaboration. end/

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

Put these papers together and when it comes to _outdoor_ exposure to extreme heat, you need to bring shade to the people where they are -- bus stops, parking lots, dropoff/pickup locations -- and similarly provide cooling locations close to where they are (minimize walking to get there). 7/

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

And: Space-time dynamics in hazard exposure analysis: smartphone locations show pedestrian routes are inflexible to extreme heat events. www.nature.com/articles/s44... 6/

Space-time dynamics in hazard exposure analysis: smartphone locations show pedestrian routes are inflexible to extreme heat events - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Space-time dynamics in hazard exposure analysis: smartphone locations show pedestrian routes are inflexible to extreme heat events

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

This is part of our series of papers using 📱 smartphone data to understand extreme heat impacts in Los Angeles. See: Smartphone locations reveal patterns of cooling center use as a heat mitigation strategy 🧊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/

Smartphone locations reveal patterns of cooling center use as a heat mitigation strategy

The increasing frequency and duration of extreme heat events prompts questions regarding mitigation proposals and evaluation of current strategies suc…

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

Planners should focus shade for cooling in areas of greater convenience (i.e. along daily routes) during extreme heat. Invest in cooling centers, streetscapes, workplaces, and residential comfort. 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 4/

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

People from socially vulnerable areas are more likely to visit parks in less vulnerable areas than vice versa. The higher quality parks in more wealthy areas are visited by people curating their environments through mobility. 🚋 🚗🚲 4/

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

Time of day and day of week are more important to park use than weather. But people do stay later in the evening at parks when it is super hot. 3/

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

Parks are used slightly less during extreme heat days than paired control days. Parks are good to reduce temperatures, but to alleviate heat in events but are used less when it is hot. Except the beach. People go to the beach in LA when it is very hot. 🏖️☀️🏄‍♀️ 2/

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 29

🔥 New Paper Alert 🔥 -- from the incomparable @ioes.ucla.edu Senior Practicum in Environmental Science with the paper led by new alums Sammy Fruman and Bethany Woo --> anonymized smartphone data show park use in extreme heat 1/ #heat #hazards #mobility #cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Smartphone location data show park use patterns in extreme heat (Los Angeles, California, USA)

Climate change, combined with the Urban Heat Island effect, will generate more frequent, intense extreme heat events. These events can induce heat str…

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 26

Remembering a #lightpollution researcher gone too soon.

Clare Boyes @pickeletto.bsky.social · Sep 26

Four years ago today since Douglas died. We miss him every moment of every day. Loved so much by his family and many friends; a respected scientist and moth-er; a wearer of great shirts; and a Bellowhead superfan.

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Clare Boyes @pickeletto.bsky.social · Sep 26

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

The concurrence relegates the interests of U. S. citizens
and individuals with legal status to a single sentence, positing that the Government will free these individuals as
soon as they show they are legally in the United States.
Ante, at 8 (opinion of KAVANAUGH, J.). That blinks reality.
Two plaintiffs in this very case tried to explain that they
are U. S. citizens; one was then pushed against a fence with
his arms twisted behind his back, and the other was taken away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government’s burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 3

Have a look at what Marko and his team are putting together, taking submissions on: - Biological Effects of Light Pollution - Impacts on Human Health - Urbanization and Light Pollution - Effects on Astronomy and Night Sky Obs - Dark Sky Protection and Policy - Methods for Measuring and Monitoring

Marko Prokic @proksima.bsky.social · Aug 23

I would like to invite you to attend the international ENLIGHT Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia, November 28-30, 2025.
The conference is dedicated to the different aspects of #lightpollution and #alan.
All details are available on the website:
👉 www.enlightproject.rs/enlight-conf...

ENLIGHT - ENLIGHT Conference

Welcome to the ENLIGHT Conference!

www.enlightproject.rs

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Sep 3

So much interesting new ecological #lightpollution research being published, and I have to highlight this new paper in particular. Shielded lights and lower CCT (warmer colors) reduce flight call disruption of migratory birds in a pretty massive study in NM www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a pervasive threat to nocturnal migrants.

Avian migrant behavior near specific ALAN sources is not well understood.

We recorded nocturnal flight calls at sites with and without ALAN.

Contrary to our predictions, call rates were higher at dark than light sites.

Shielding and longer wavelength lights reduced the impacts of ALAN.

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Marko Prokic @proksima.bsky.social · Aug 23

ENLIGHT - ENLIGHT Conference

Welcome to the ENLIGHT Conference!

www.enlightproject.rs

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Joshua Sokol @joshuasokol.bsky.social · Aug 8

News: Trump’s FCC wants to widen the (already huge) loophole that companies like SpaceX use when they want to launch tens of thousands of satellites while dodging environmental review studies. I’m busy with book revisions, but would happily chat with interested journalist friends. Thoughts below.

Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Travis Longcore @travislongcore.bsky.social · Aug 3

Reminder that fascinating studies about moonlight influences on species behavior are also de facto studies about #lightpollution and especially #skyglow See photos at esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... an article in Ecology at doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 3

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.

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