Intrigued by the glorious nature of marine mammals? On Saturday, April 25, the Neighbors of Rancho Los Cerritos will host a morning coffee and conversation with Jim Dines from 8:30am to10am at Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site.
Jim Dines will be speaking about the Marine Mammal Program at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. With more than 35 million specimens and objects in 16 different research collections, LA’s natural history museum is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S.
As head of the museum’s Mammalogy Department, Dines manages the mammal collections and is involved with the planning of new exhibits and programming. Dines also oversees the museum’s Marine Mammal Program and in that capacity he studies the deaths of whales and dolphins off the southern California coast. He was recently part of the scientific team that investigated the mortal ship strikes of several blue whales in the Santa Barbara Channel in the fall of 2007.
The event is free and open to all. Rancho Los Cerritos is located on 4600 N. Virginia Road. For more information, call (562) 570-1755.
