Science / Medicine : College Promotes AIDS Awareness
The Santa Monica College AIDS Task Force is sponsoring an AIDS Awareness Week on campus, beginning today .
Timed to coincide with the release of a student survey on AIDS, the weeklong series of events will feature videos, a movie about a child with AIDS and speakers on different aspects of the disease, including a discussion on women and AIDS on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Physical Education Building.
Task Force members hope that, through education and communication, the spread of this disease can be stopped.
Events begin today at 11 a.m. and continue daily through Friday at locations throughout campus. Call (213) 452-9262 or (213) 452-4091.
MARINE SCIENCE
Channel Islands National Park Ranger Diane Green will discuss the diverse creatures of a Pacific tide pool in a program at the park’s visitor center in Ventura on Sunday at 2 p.m. Call (805) 644-8262.
ORNITHOLOGY
Naturalist Linda Lewis of the American Cetacean Society will lead participants in a special kayaking trip to view the birds and other wildlife of the Back Bay of Newport on April 23 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. A second trip will be held May 6. A three-hour kayaking lesson is included. Call (213) 548-8500.
The decline of the California condor will be discussed by Lloyd Kiff, head of the Condor Recovery Team, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on April 23 at 2 p.m. Call (213) 744-3342.
Spring sea birds, loons and migrating fowl are some of the birds participants can expect to learn about in an outing to Point Dume led by Kimball Garrett of the Los Angeles Audubon Society on Saturday at 1 p.m. Call (213) 876-0202.
SCIENCE FOR KIDS
Kidspace Museum in Pasadena continues its “Science Festival for Kids” with workshops that teach children how to identify rocks, where they originated and how they were created, on Saturday and Sunday at 12:30, 1:45 and 3 p.m. Call (818) 449-9144.
Seahorses will be the stars of the “Whale’s Tales” family program at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Call (213) 744-3335 or 744-3534.
ASTRONOMY
Jim Lund, El Camino College planetarium manager, will examine galaxies and the expanding universe in the college planetarium show Friday evenings in April at 8:05 p.m. Doors open at 7:45 p.m. Call (213) 715-3200.
Meteors and comets will be the subject of the Los Angeles Valley College planetarium program on Friday at 8 p.m. Call (818) 781-1200, Ext. 335.
ENVIRONMENT
“Diversity Endangered,” the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition on the worldwide destruction of Earth’s biological diversity, is now at the Cabrillo Marine Museum in San Pedro. The exhibit will be on view through April 30. Call (213) 548-7562.