Public Input Sought in Seashore Surveys

The public will have an opportunity to participate in a long-term survey of local seashore populations Feb. 23-26.

“Peninsula Shorewatch,” a joint project of Cabrillo Marine Museum and Cal State Long Beach, has charted annual population changes of abalone, sea urchins and other shoreline animals of the Palos Verdes Peninsula since 1975.

The study has been expanded to allow the public to assist in surveying the impact of human and natural climatic changes on the shoreline communities.

An orientation class, including an introductory lecture and laboratory session on the animals and their habitats, the research project and data-gathering methods, will be held at the museum Feb. 23 at 9 a.m., followed by field surveys Feb. 23-26.

Participants do not need to attend all field surveys.

Registration is required. Call (213) 548-7563.

ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY

UCLA’s Institute of Archeology will present a public lecture on the royal Mayan families of Yaxchilan and a workshop on Mayan hieroglyphics in the Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

The lecture is scheduled for Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. The workshop will be held Feb. 23 and 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (213) 206-8934.

SCIENCE POLICY

Brown University biology professor Anne Fausto-Sterling will discuss “Gender and Science,” a Women in Science Lecture at Caltech’s Baxter Lecture Hall, Thursday at 4 p.m. Call (818) 356-4652.

SCIENCE FOR KIDS

Spiders, beetles, millipedes and centipedes are some of the creatures that can be found in Ralph M. Parson’s Traveling Insect Zoo, visiting the South Coast Botanic Garden Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. Call (213) 544-6815.

The Children’s Museum at La Habra and the UCI Regional Poison Center will teach children and their families about medicines, poisonous plants and household products in a workshop at noon Feb. 23. Call (213) 905-9793.

Children can learn about the interdependent lives of native Alaskans and the marine mammals of the area in workshops at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Reservations are required. Call (213) 744-3534.

MEDICINE/HEALTH

Cardiologists from St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica will present information on the effects of nutrition, exercise, stress and other factors on heart health Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the hospital. Reservations are required. Call (213) 829-8453.

Radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer will be discussed by physicians from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at a meeting of Breast Cancer Recovery Plus at 2 p.m. Saturday at Security Pacific Bank, 2920 Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. Call (213) 478-9463 or (213) 452-0200.

Daniel Freeman Hospitals in Inglewood and Marina del Rey will be presenting a series of seminars on heart health issues throughout February. Diagnosing heart disease will be discussed at the Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. Reservations are required. Call (800) 356-2824.

GEOLOGY

Evidence of Ice Age lakes of the Mojave Desert will be studied in a weekend class offered by the Desert Studies Center of the California State University system Feb. 22-24. Call (714) 880-5975.