Upcoming Events
MONTHLY SPEAKER SERIES
ACS-Los Angeles is happy to announce a collaboration with ACS-Orange County and ACS-Monterey Bay on our monthly webinar series! These are free webinars open to the public. ACS-OC is working hard putting together our lineup for 2025, and our first five speakers are set so save these dates! Each presentation will take place on a Thursday night at 7pm.
1/23/25 – Alisa Schulman-Janiger (CA Killer Whale Project/Gray Whale Census) “ACS-LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project, and Killer Whales off California”
2/27/25 – Justin Viezbicke (NOAA CA Stranding Coordinator) “Summary of Large Whale Entanglements in California”
3/27/25 – Mark Girardeau (OC Outdoors) “Fauna of Orange County, CA-Land and Sea”
4/24/25 – Dr. Rachel Cartwright (CSUCI, Keiki Kohola Project) “Gen Z Humpbacks”
5/22/25 – Dr. John Calambokidis (Cascadia Research Collective) Topic TBD
We had a powerhouse lineup for 2024 and if you missed any of them, you can watch them at your leisure. They are linked on our Library page.
ACS-Library
- Our Library includes links to our past webinars (including the past Deeper Dives) as well as some ACS-LA Gray Whale Census summaries.
- You can access these at any time for free.
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What's Going On
Gray Whale Census update March 2024
Gray Whale Census morning crew M'Liz Callender, Petrina Long, Joanne Kajiyama, and Caroline DeGraaf, 2024 February 29, Point Vicente Interpretie Center, by Alisa Schulman-Janiger. Southbound gray whale mom and calf, photographed from our Census station at the Point...
Gray Whale Census Summary 2014-2015
Photo by Alisa Schulman-JanigerACS/LA GRAY WHALE CENSUS AND BEHAVIOR PROJECT: 2014-2015 Census Project Director/Coordinator: Alisa Schulman-Janiger Email: janiger@cox.net For daily sighting details, please visit: www.acs-la.org Higher gray whale counts, record...
Gray Whale Census Summary 2017-2018
Photo by Nancy Rhodes ACS/LA GRAY WHALE CENSUS AND BEHAVIOR PROJECT: 2017-2018 Census Project Director/Coordinator: Alisa Schulman-Janiger Email: janiger@cox.net For daily sighting details, please visit: www.acs-la.org Our third highest southbound calf counts...
Gray Whale Census 2022-2023
Photo by James Dorsey ACS-LA GRAY WHALE CENSUS AND BEHAVIOR PROJECT: 2022-2023 Gray Whale Census Project Director/Coordinator: Alisa Schulman-Janiger Email: janiger@cox.net For daily sighting details, please visit: www.acs-la.org High northbound gray whale calf...