Submission of abstracts and registration for ALAN 2025 has closed. With 136 submissions, and over 170 registrations, this year again set a new record in the number of ALAN abstract submissions and attendees.

We are looking forward to a vibrant and exciting conference with 70 talks and over 50 posters on diverse, and often transdisciplinary, topics.

Below is the final programme of speaker presentations.

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Programme

​Wednesday October 29th 5.30pm

Field Trip to Mayo Dark Sky Park and Newport

Bus will depart from the Westport Woods Hotel Reception Area at 5.30pm on Wednesday October 29th returning to the Hotel at approx. 10pm.
This trip includes a guided tour of Newport to see the completion of the first phase of its Lighting Master Plan, followed by a visit to the award-winning Mayo International Dark Sky Park for a special programme of events.

This event has been made possible with the support of National Parks & Wildlife Services. 

Friday October 31st at 9.30am 

Field Trip to Joyce Country & Western Lakes Geopark

Bus will depart from the reception of the Western Woods Hotel on Friday October 31st at 9.30am returning at approx. 2.30pm.
As well as the Geopark, this field trip will visit Ballintubber Abbey, the charming village of Cong, Lough Nafooey and the Lough Mask distillery while learning about this Geopark’s actions in the context of its soon to be ratified UNESCO Global Geopark status. There will be a presentation on the GLOW2.0 project at Tourmakeady Community Centre with light lunch and refreshments.

This event has been made possible with the support of Udarás Na Gaeltachta. 

To book field trips, please add them to your registration as a free add-on here: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event/73746?preview=false

For some relevant information for your travel planning, click here.

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How to present at ALAN 2025

Oral presentations and the poster session will be held between Oct 28-30. To allow as many oral presentations as possible, only the invited speakers will be presenting in plenary sessions, the remaining talks will be in parallel sessions.

On October 31st, we will have a networking meeting and a Science meets Practice workshop organised with the support of Dark Sky and the newly founded European Light Pollution Coalition. This event is also open for non-ALAN attendees. Posters can still be presented during this event.

Oral presentations will be for 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion.

Please send your presentation to info@avacoustics.ie by October 22, 2025 with the subject line ALAN 2025 Presentation and your name and day of presentation.  (When sending, please note email size limits or use WeTransfer.) 

The preferred format for presentations is .PPTX or .PDF.  The file name should reflect the presenters name and the day of presentation, e.g. MMouseThursPM.pdf.  Preferred aspect ratio is 16:9 or 16:10.

Presentations will be accepted on USB, on the day, if we are advised in advance to expect them on site.  Presenters’ own laptops can be used for presentations but must have HDMI or USBc connectivity.  Technicians will be on hand for the entire conference duration to assist with any queries and will also be located in the Plenary Hall on Monday October 27^th. 

All screens are 4k in resolution so can accommodate high resolution pictures.

Please do not have any links in your presentation.  Any video, or other external data, must be embedded into your presentation. 

Audio can be included in your presentation, but please highlight this in advance in your email. 

Please also test your presentation on your laptop to ensure it runs as intended, in particular any animations.

Posters need to be printed in A0 portrait format (118.9 cm x 84.1 cm/ 46.8 in x 33.1 in). Posters that are larger than this cannot be displayed. Please bring your printed poster to the conference or, if you wish to avail of printing locally, please email your poster file with receipt of payment to sales@mysign.ie by October 20^th.   

Please use ALAN Poster Presentations A0 in the subject line.  The preferred file format is PDF.

Payment Link for local printing: https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/QATYOYBD

Posters will be collected by the local organising team in advance of the conference and erected in the poster gallery. There is no poster template aside from the maximum size, so please feel free to follow your own style and creativity.

You are also welcome to include a QR code lining to your profile or research page.

For abstract and presentation questions, please direct inquiries to contact@articifiallightatnight.org.​

​By submitting an abstract, you confirmed that you agree to license the work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and that you are the creator or have permission to so license any images included in the abstract.

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Early Stage Researcher Award

A prize of €100 will be awarded to the best poster presented by an early stage researcher (maximum 3 years since PhD awarded). Posters are judged by a group of anonymous senior conference attendees (usually not including members of the steering committee). Posters are rated based on their design, the clarity and accuracy of the information provided, the novelty of the research, and the presenters ability to communicate their results orally.

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Conference Proceedings

A PDF booklet of the two-page abstracts will be provided to the conference attendees, and will be made freely available online.

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