|
 Dr. Dubendorff moved to Lakeland in 1997 with
his wife and two daughters. He taught physics at George Jenkins and Lake
Gibson High Schools. During the spring 1999 semester he commuted to St.
Petersburg for one semester to teach as an adjunct at that campus of St.
Petersburg Junior College. In the fall of 1999 he took an adjunct position at
Polk Community College teaching Earth Science. "I had not enjoyed
commuting to St. Pete, so the change to PCC was a great one. Plus I found
that teaching at PCC was very much like teaching at SPJC."
In the fall of 2000 he was hired to fill a full-time position in Physical
Science. He now teaches Survey of Earth Science (face-to-face and hybrid
versions), Oceanography, Energy and Humanity, and various courses in Physics.
Dr. Dubendorff was born in Gainesville, Florida and grew up in Clearwater,
Florida. After graduating from Clearwater High School in 1974 he majored in
physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Upon graduating from Emory
with a B. S. with honors in physics in 1978 he attended graduate school in
physics at Duke University in Durham, NC. He received a M.A. in Physics from
Duke in 1980. He then moved to Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon
in order to concentrate in geophysics. He received his Ph. D. in geophysics (seismology)
from OSU in 1987.
He taught all levels of undergraduate physics at the University of Dallas in
Irving, Texas and Stetson University in DeLand,
Florida. Before moving to Lakeland Dr. Dubendorff was living in Clearwater
teaching Earth Science and Physics at the Tarpon Spring Center of St.
Petersburg Junior College and taking graduate geology classes at the
University of South Florida. "I love taking classes as much as teaching
them but teaching pays better!"
|
B.S. in
physics -