Dr. W. Michael Dennis is President and a Senior Scientist of Breedlove, Dennis & Associates, Inc., a natural resources-based environmental consulting firm which has offices in Orlando, Brooksville, and Tallahassee, Florida, where he consults on wetland evaluations, wetland mitigation, plant taxonomy and ecology, remote sensing and aerial photointerpretation, wildlife including Threatened and/or Endangered species, wetland permitting issues, Ordinary High Water Line determinations, and terrestrial and wetlands ecology. He serves as an expert witness on these issues, testifying in administrative, state, and federal jurisdictions.

Dr. Dennis has served on state advisory/technical panels appointed by the Florida Department of Community Affairs and the St. Johns River Water Management District; and he previously served on Technical Committees appointed by the Florida Senate and House on wetland rule changes. He has assisted in the development of county wetland regulations.

Dr. Dennis has contributed as a visiting professor at the University of Tennessee, where he has taught courses on Aquatic and Wetland Plants of the Tennessee Valley for over 20 years. He is a past Board Member of the Spring Island Trust Board; and is currently a Board Member of the Balsam Mountain Trust Board and Discover Life in America. He has served as President of the Association of Southeastern Biologists for 2007/2008.

Dr. Dennis received a B.S. in Biology from Emory University, a M.S. in Biology from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Tennessee.