Staff Biography


Dennis Dowling
Head, Wilcox High School Science Dept.
Role at UNA: Coordinator of Education Component

Dennis is the Science Department Chairman at Wilcox High School in the Santa Clara Unified School District. He is also the Co-Director of the Montebello Ridge Environmental Science Program for Santa Clara Unified. He has taken thousands of students on environmental trips throughout California. Dennis has taught a Bay Ecology Environmental Science summer school class for the past 26 years, and, with students, has built trails, removed non-native plants, planted native plants and performed bird and mammal counts for areas such as Don Edwards U.S. Fish and Wildlife Bay Refuge at Alviso. He holds a BA in Biological Science from San Francisco State.