Alumnus Makes Studying Orange County’s Bottlenose Dolphins His Life’s Work
A college student’s question launched Dennis L. Kelly’s nearly four decades of bottlenose dolphin research.
The recent graduate — he’d earned a bachelor’s degree in biological science in 1971 and a master’s degree in biology three years later — was teaching a biology course at Orange Coast College in 1974. The more he talked about dolphins, the more his students perked up. “They were actually listening,” he remembered.
