2nd Annual "Whale of a Celebration" Event

Join us Friday, November 21st at 6:30 PM at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach by IHG for a special evening celebrating the 2-Year Anniversary of the Santa Barbara Channel Whale Heritage Area!

Meet local whale researchers, biologists, and advocates as they share the latest whale science from our channel including an ANCIENT WHALE FOSSIL found at one of the local beaches. Enjoy the premiere of a brand-new short film by wildlife filmmaker Adam Ernster, showcasing this year’s remarkable successes of the SBCWHA.

Celebrate the magnificent whales and dolphins that call our waters home, and join us for an incredible wildlife cruise aboard Island Packers to see these animals in the wild.

A fun-filled weekend you won’t want to miss!

Thank YOU to our Special Guests for being part of our upcoming Whale of a Celebration

Join us for what promises to be a fun and educational 2-Year Anniversary.

• Alisa Shulman Janiger : Alisa Schulman-Janiger is a marine biologist, cetacean researcher, educator, and Research Associate at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. She has been the Director/Coordinator of the full-season shore-based ACS/LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project (Point Vicente) since 1984. Alisa is Co-Founder and Lead Research Biologist of the California Killer Whale Project; she has been photo-identifying California killer whales, archiving sightings, and studying distribution, natural history, and behavior (over 45 years). She is an instructor for Cabrillo Whalewatch, training naturalists. She has been a whale researcher/naturalist in southern California, Monterey Bay, Alaska, Massachusetts, and Baja California, and a NOAA staff scientist/marine mammal observer (Alaska to California), and is a responder for the NOAA Fisheries Large Whale Entanglement Response Team and California Stranding Response Team. She was head marine biologist/educator on LAUSD’s Sea Education Afloat for 10 years, and taught marine biology, advanced marine science, and biology in San Pedro High School’s Marine Science Magnet for 21 years.
• Jonathan Hoffman from the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum speaking about an ancient whale that was recently unearthed in nearby Goleta.
• Local wildlife filmmaker Adam Ernster will unveil a new film highlighting all the updates from the Santa Barbara Channel Whale Heritage Area.

Empowering Conservation Through Partnership Sponsorships are essential to the success of the Santa Barbara Channel Whale Heritage Area. Become a sponsor today to help us bring our mission to life. By becoming a sponsor for our 2nd annual "Whale of a Celebration event," you can help us put together community events, educational programs, whale watching opportunities for school groups, and conservation-focused short films about the whales of the Santa Barbara Channel.

We offer tiered sponsorship, from the common dolphin to the blue whale, that caters to organizations of all sizes, offering visibility across event materials, acknowledgment during the celebration, and opportunities for audience engagement. More importantly, our sponsorships cultivate long-term, mission-driven partnerships, leveraging mutual values to benefit our oceans, and our coastal community.

PLEASE EMAIL US AT SBWHALEHERITAGE@GMAIL.COM TO BECOME A SPONSOR!

SPONSOR SHIP DECK LOCATED HERE! : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zLw65xMYyxUWZw-kwk_ULGQwBtPS4ySE/view?usp=share_link

Your contribution will help us provide local schools with the chance to embark on their own whale watching adventure in the Santa Barbara Channel through our new scholarship program.

Santa Barbara Channel Whale Heritage Area’s fiscal sponsor is the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization registered in the State of California.

HUGE Thank YOU to our sponsors listed below!