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Dal alumni meet 52 years later

When Dr. Megan Coggins and Dr. (Col) Ronald Dr. Harris (BSc'63) met, serendipitously, aboard Expedition Ship Polaris, they discovered they had even more in common.

Posted: August 12, 2024

A couple standing on the deck of a cruise ship

While on a 15-day Great Lakes voyage aboard the Expedition Ship, Polaris, this summer, Dr. (Col) Ronald D. Harris (BSc'63) met chief scientific officer of Polaris, Dr. Megan Coggins. A conversation about oceanography quickly turned to their university experiences, where they learned they had both attended Dalhousie University. Harris describes the meeting as "happy, a true coincidence and a display of the small-world aspect of living on this blue planet.”