Gray whale census and study of species’ health halts amid coronavirus concerns

For the first time in nearly four decades, no one is there to watch the whales.
Alisa Schulman-Janiger and a team of volunteers have perched up on the cliff top at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center in Rancho Palos Verdes for 37 years, taking 12-hour shifts daily from Dec. 1 through May 31.
They watch whales off Southern California’s coast on their journey from Mexico to Alaska – sometimes they can be seen feeding, other times they frolic, occasionally they mate – always, un