Winter 2012
Chris Dunagan ’74, ’75—Bearing witness to the sights and smells of our soggy backyard
If you cover the waterfront the way Chris Dunagan does, you have to expect a fair amount of smells. There’s the fresh, tangy scent of estuary and the mild musk of beach wrack. There’s the stench of rotting shellfish during the great Oyster Rescue of 2010, and the outsized rot of a beached gray whale. Dunagan, 60, has documented a lot of beached whales, although the numbers are hard to nail down.
Counting just grays, not killer whales or humpbacks or dead whale reports over the phone, he says, “I’ve probably gone out to 20.”
Dunagan (biochemistry ’74, ’75 communications) has been the environmental reporter … » More …