Dave smiling, in the background is an observatory and lots of stars

Dave Austin | Educator Fellow
UA Sky School | Tucson, AZ

Dave is an experiential educator in the Sky Islands region of Southern Arizona. His programs welcome middle and high schoolers to Sky School’s observatory campus atop Mt Lemmon, near Tucson, where students engage in hands-on field research investigating Sky Island ecology and astronomy. Dave also mentors a team of University of Arizona PhD students as Sky School instructors in science communication. Dave enjoys playing ice hockey, mountain biking, and searching for water in the desert with his beloved pup, Sasha.