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Jeff Adkins

teacher
Deer Valley High School/Los Medanos College
Antioch, California, United States

I live with my wife and step-daughter and two cats in Antioch, CA.

I am a long-time amateur astronomer and a teacher at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, California and Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, California. Presently I teach Astronomy and Space Science, CP Physics, Honors Physics, Astronomy Dual-Enrollment, and Physics Dual-Enrollment at the high school level, and Intro astronomy and physics at our local community college.

I am the founder and former director of the Academic Challenge and Enrichment Academy (ACE) at Deer Valley High School in Antioch, California. I wrote the astronomy book used in my classes (Conceptual Astronomy 1 and 2) and recently created a one-semester version of my course. I have written a novel, a musical stage play, a long-term comic strip (Cosmo and Astro Get Schooled) and am a frequent contributor to introductory astronomy teacher Facebook groups.

I have B.A. in Physics Education from Berea College and a M.S. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona.

My primary hobbies are amateur astronomy and fiddling around with my computer. I own two telescopes, a small Newtonian on an equatorial mount and a big 13" Dobsonian from Odyssey. Through these telescopes and others I have seen all the planets and about two-thirds of the Messier List. I've seen Mars and Jupiter rotate, watched Mars' polar caps come and go, tracked several comets, and observed galaxies, globular clusters, open clusters, reflection and absorption nebulae, supernova remnants, planetary nebulae, quazars, and plenty of double and multiple star systems.

I also have a collection of hundreds of science fiction novels. My collection includes some signed works by Carl Sagan, everyone from Azimov to Zahn.and a first edition Star Fleet Technical Manual signed by members of the cast of Star Trek TOS.

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