1990 Ph. D., University of California, Davis
1986 M.S., University of California, Davis
1982 B.S., Brown University

The past year has been both busy and exciting. Geology majors Kelly Adams, Katie Davis and Megan Leahey, who worked in my lab have graduated and moved on to graduate school or "real" jobs. We have continued to work on building up the rock deformation lab; the major accomplishment for this year is building a little machine shop in one corner of the lab where we can now fabricate sample assembly parts as well as finish refurbishing my rock deformation apparatus. The ACRES summer program, now starting its third summer, is going well. Last summer we had a really good time and accomplished some exciting research.

In addition to managing the ACRES program (with the help over the last three years of student assistants Kelly Adams, Barbara Brocks and Danette Cooper), I co-supervise the fluid inclusion and finite element modeling project with Dr. Vanko and Dr. Kar (from Ft. Valley State University). Our goal for the project is to gather valuable fluid inclusion data and also to model the stresses around the inclusions as they decrepitate. Last summer we looked at fluid inclusions in rocks from the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. This summer we are working on fluid inclusions that last summer's students collected from the Uchee Belt in Columbus, GA. We were able to present combined results from the first two years plus some additional modeling done by Katie Davis, at the fall GSA meeting in Reno. The students' work on finite element modeling of fluid inclusions has been received with interest by the fluid inclusion community, so I have invested some of my own modeling efforts and am currently putting together a manuscript that describes this new avenue of research. As a teacher I continue to learn about new ways to teach and have explored a variety of different learning formats. One of the most different teaching environments I worked in this year was Grady High School. As part of initiating a new program of outreach to Atlanta's High Schools, I taught a six week exploratory class this spring at Grady. Since the "exploratory" did not have the pressure of a final grade, I had to rely completely on capturing the students interests in order to keep them engaged. I probably learned as much about teaching in those six weeks as the students learned about geology! We capped the class off with a field trip to Cloudland Canyon lead by Dr. Vanko. I have also been working with Dr. Hassard in the college of education on his Eisenhower Teachers Institute at Cedar Grove Middle school and continue to work with the STEP Science Committee on the new integrated science sequence for middle school pre-service teachers, which we will launch this fall. Last fall, I taught introductory physical geology for the Honors Program Freshmen Learning Community. Being part of the FLC and working with the other FLC faculty was a very positive experience. The FLC provides a genuine sense of community for everyone involved including the faculty. I'm very much looking forward to participating in the Honors FLC again this fall.

Beyond the boundaries of GSU, I had the opportunity to serve on several NSF panels last year - always a tremendous learning experience. I was also appointed to serve on the executive committee of COMPRES, a newly formed national consortium for high pressure research on Earth materials. My activities with COMPRES will involve working on the experimental rock deformation efforts as well as serving as "point person" on Education and Outreach for the consortium.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Burnley, P. C. (2002) Investigation of Martensitic-like Transformation from Mg2GeO4 Olivine to its Spinel Structure Polymorph. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (Submitted, March 2001).

Burnley, P. C., Jarrett, O. S., and Evans W. (2002) A Comparison of Approaches and Instruments for Evaluating a Geological Sciences Research Experiences Program, Journal of Geoscience Education (submitted, February 2001)

ABSTRACTS (*undergraduate students)

*Hansel, Krisha; *Kobor, Jeremy; *Shopa, Amanda; Davison, Jeff; Hanley, Tom; Kar, Aditya; LaTour, Timothy E. and Burnley, Pamela C. 2000 Geological and geochemical study of gneisses, amphibolites, and additional rocks in the Uchee Belt of western Georgia and eastern Alabama: an Atlanta Consortium of Research in the Earth Sciences (ACRES) progress report Geol. Soc. of Amer. Abstracts with Programs, 32:7 pg A-272

Jarrett, O. S., Burnley, P. C. and Evans W. 2000 Development of an Instrument for Evaluating Science Student's Attitudes Towards and Understandings of Science. Geol. Soc. of Amer. Abstracts with Programs, 32:7 pg A-266

Burnley, P.C., *Davis, M.K., *Blount, M., *Dozier, C., *Khallouf, D., *Lukes, L., *Pepper, P., Gray, J.C., Vanko, D.A. , Kar, A. 2000 The Use of Numerical Methods to Study Decrepitation and Volume Changes of Fluid Inclusions. Geol. Soc. of Amer. Abstracts with Programs, 32:7 pg A-153

*Davis, M. K. and Burnley, P. C. 2000 Finite element modeling of stresses developed around fluid inclusions in quartz. EOS, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 81:19 p S39
Jarrett, O. S., Burnley, P. C., Evans, W. 2000 Engagement in authentic geoscience research: Effects on understanding of undergraduates and secondary teachers, bibl. Annual Conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching in New Orleans, April 2000