Aquarium Hosts Autumn Sea Fair

Swashbuckling pirates, a sand castle building competition and educational games are among the events that will be found at the annual Autumn Sea Fair at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium on Saturday.

Nearly two dozen organizations will have marine-related items on display. Educational and environmental information for adults and children will be on hand.

A demonstration by the Los Angeles city fire boat, Ralph J. Scott, is scheduled for the mid-afternoon. There will be music, sea chantey singing and whale-size soap bubbles during the day as well.

Admission is free. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call (310) 548-7563.

HERPETOLOGY

* The Southwestern Herpetologists Society will present its 13th annual Live Reptile and Amphibian Exhibit from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Lake View Terrace Recreation Center. Hundreds of species from around the world will be

on display. There also will be conservation and education exhibits. Call (310) 399-4621 for more information.

ASTRONOMY

* The strange, invisible dark matter of the universe will be the subject of the Santa Monica College astronomy program at 8 p.m. Friday and Nov. 4. The presentations will be in Room 105 of the Business Building, immediately following the weekly Night Sky Show at 7 p.m. Call (310) 452-9396.

SCIENCE EDUCATION

* The Friends of the Madrona Marsh, in conjunction with the Torrance Parks and Recreation Department, will sponsor a hands-on “Project Wild Workshop” based on wildlife and environmental education for kindergarten through 12th grade educators on Oct. 22. Reservations for the workshop must be made by Saturday. Call (310) 782-3533.

ORNITHOLOGY

* The differences and similarities of the birds and animals of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions will be discussed by Arnold Small at the monthly meeting of the Los Angeles Audubon Society at 8 p.m. tonight in Plummer Park in West Hollywood. Call (213) 876-0202.

HEALTH/MEDICINE

* Dr. Margaret Kemeny, assistant professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and specialist in immunology, will discuss “Emotions and the Immune System: What Do We Know?” part of the Insights Into Cancer series offered by UCLA’s Rhonda Fleming Mann Resource Center for Women With Cancer, tonight at 7 p.m. at the Jules Stein Eye Institute Auditorium. Call (310) 794-6644.

SCIENCE FOR FAMILIES

* Children and their families can learn about the nervous system and examine X-rays of the spine in a Whale’s Tales workshop, “All Stacked Up,” offered at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Burbank Discovery Center at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Call (818) 557-3562.

* The nighttime habits and habitats of bats, owls, coyotes and other nocturnal creatures will be explored in daytime workshops for children 5 and older on Saturday at the Kidspace Museum in Pasadena at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Call (818) 449-9144.

GEOLOGY

* USC geology professor J. Lawford Anderson will discuss “Proterozoic Planet Earth: A Midlife Crisis,” at 11 a.m. today at Pomona College, Room 214, Seaver South. Call (909) 621-8676.