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. We are super excited for our 2025 lineup, so be sure to save these dates! Each presentation will take place over Zoom 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”

Register for the 1/23/25 event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_axQzRy8YQL-8LzlNn8PcuQ#/registration

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

6/26/25 – Dr. Kate Stafford (OSU) “Bowhead Whales in a Changing Arctic”

7/24/25 – Jordan Reichhardt (CPSU) “Addressing Whale Entanglements off the Pacific Coast”
                ACS-LA 2024 Research Grant Winner.

8/28/25 – Lauren Kashiwabara (OSU) “Microplastics in the Pacific Gray Whale Food Web”
                ACS-LA 2024 Research Grant Winner.

9/25/25 – Dr. Dawn Goley (Cal Poly Humboldt) “Pacific Coast Feeding Group Gray Whales in N California”

10/23/25 – Jared Towers (Bay Cetology) 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.

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