Volunteers Sought for Gray Whale Census Project
If you can count, the Los Angeles chapter of the American Cetacean Society wants you.
Every year, volunteers gather at the Pt. Vicente Interpretive Center overlooking the ocean in Rancho Palos Verdes to count the number of gray whales migrating south in the winter and north in the spring. It is part of the Gray Whale Census Project. The information is used by researchers to study the population of gray whales, which had at one time been in danger of extinction.
Last year, whale spotters counted 1,053 gray whales traveling south and 1,608 going north.
The Gray Whale Census Project, begun in 1978, is directed by Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a marine biology teacher at San Pedro High School.
She will hold an orientation and training session Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Pt. Vicente Interpretive Center for interested volunteers. Whale watching begins Dec. 1.
Information call: (310) 519-8963.
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