Congratulations, Jennifer! Extended coverage of Jennifer West and her Dark Sky Defender Student Award appears in the Winnipeg Free Press
Artificial lights do worse than just ruin the view By Nick Martin, July 10, 2011
Dark Sky Defender could be the title of the next summer superhero blockbuster.
It would sure look nifty on a resumé.
And it's especially impressive, though no less mysterious, when you're talking about Jennifer West, a University of Manitoba student who is this year's top student-category Dark Sky Defender on the planet.
This is serious stuff, said West, a PhD student in astrophysics and a sessional lecturer at the University of Manitoba.
West received her award in New York City recently from the International Dark Sky Association, a worldwide group of academics in fields as diverse as the environment, education, biology, medicine and astrophysics. Read more >>
