Cailin Huyck Orr

Education & Professional History

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Limnology and Marine Science, M.S. and Ph.D.
Carleton College, Biology, B.A.

Professional Experience

2014- curr Associate Director, SERC, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
2014-2019 Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Washington State University, Pullman WA. School of the Environment
2009-2014 Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. School of the Environment
2008 Adjunct Instructor. St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
2006-2008 Post-doctoral Associate National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota

At Carleton since 2014.

Highlights & Recent Activity

SERC is a grant-funded office of Carleton College. Up to 2019 the office had been a part of securing more than $27 million in grant funds to support more than 209 projects aimed at strengthening education through collaborative partnerships that include developing and planning new ideas, building programs and resources, and conducting research and evaluation to contribute to the knowledge base and guide future work.

Recent projects as a lead PI:

Bridging to STEM Excellence – A consortium for faculty development.
CUREnet 2 – A community for developing, teaching and sharing course-based undergraduate research experiences.
Project EDDIE – Building materials and supports for teaching quantitative reasoning using environmental data.

Recent projects as SERC lead

Network of STEM Education Centers
Accelerating Systemic Change Network
- Transforming Institutions conference
Earth Educator’s Rendezvous conference
NAGT On the Cutting Edge faculty professional development program
IINSPIRE Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
AK UNiTE – Alaska Undergraduate Research Experience
EarthScope ANGLE – Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience
PolarPASS: Polar Places and Space
Macrosystems Project EDDIE
Team-based Learning: Economics
NextGen WA STEM – Creating next generation STEM teacher preparation
Teaching Computation with MATLAB
National Collaborative for Research on Food, Water, Energy Education

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

National Association of Geoscience Teachers
American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
Ecological Society of America

Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers

SERC works closely with our partners at institutions and professional organizations across the country to improve the undergraduate experience for students of all backgrounds in STEM and related fields. My work is focused on improving learning and teaching at the undergraduate level, and working to reduce institutional barriers to inclusive and equitable practices in higher education. This includes leading and supporting grant funded efforts through providing professional development and dissemination of outcomes, community visioning and bringing science into broader use.

Please see a full list of my current projects and learn more about the work we are doing on the SERC website.

Book Chapters

Metzger, E, D. Gosselin, and C.H.Orr. 2021. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality educationand promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. In J.C. Gill and M. Smith, Editors, Geology and the Sustainable Development Goals: Facilitating Responsible Earth Stewardship. Springer-Nature.

Orr, C.H. and J.R. McDaris. 2019. Supporting implementation of program-level changesto increase learning about Earth. In A. Egger, J. Taber and D. Gosselin editors, Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future, Springer.

Journal Articles

McDaris, J.R., C.A. Manduca, E.R. Iverson, C.H. Orr. 2017. Looking in the Right Places: Minority Serving Institutions as Sources of Diverse Earth ScienceLearners. Journal of Geoscience Education 65:407-415.

Kelley, C.J., C.K. Keller, J.L. Smith, E. Brooks, C.H. Orr. 2017. Water and Nitrogen movement through a semi-arid dryland agroecosystem: Seasonal and decadal trends. Hydrological Processes. doi:10.1002/hyp.11152.

Ortega-Pieck, A. A.K. Fremier, C. H. Orr. 2017. Agricultural influences on themagnitude of whole-stream metabolism in humid tropical headwater streams. Freshwater Science. doi:10.1007/s10750-017-3204-5.

Orr, C.H., Manduca, C.A. 2016. Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future: InTeGrate. In the Trenches 6:3:3-4.

Orr C.H, K.I. Predick, E.H. Stanley and K.L. Rogers. 2014. Spatial variability of denitrification and associated soil properties on a restored and a natural floodplain. Wetlands 34:89-100.

Kelley, C.J., C. Keller, R.D. Evans, C.H. Orr, J.L. Smith, and B.A. Harlow. 2013 Nitrate-nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios for identification of nitrate sources and dominant nitrogen cycle processes in a tile-drained dryland agricultural field. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57:731-738.

Singh, A, J. Marr, C. Hill, S. Johnson, C. Ellis, J. Mullin, C.H. Orr, P. Wilcock, M. Hondzo, C. Paola, E. Foufoula-Georgiou. 2012. StreamLab: Overview of experiments, instrumentation, and data collected. Water Resources Research 49:1746-1752.

Orr, C.H. J.J. Clark, P.R. Wilcock, M.W. Doyle. 2009. Impact of channel geometry and algae growth on hyporheic exchange and nutrient uptake : Insights from a field-scale flume. JGR Biogeosciences 114, G02019, doi:10.1029/2008JG000825.

Wilcock, P.R, C.H. Orr, J. Marr. 2008. Particles, solutes, and life in flowing water: a large-scale multidisciplinary experiment at St Anthony Falls Laboratory. EOS 89(1): 6.

Orr, C.H., S.J. Kroiss, K.L. Rogers and E.H. Stanley. 2008. Response of benthic sediments and metabolism to dam removal in a small Wisconsin stream. River Research and Applications 24(6): 804.

Riggsbee, J.A, C.H. Orr, J.C. Julian, D.A. Leech, M.W. Doyle, and R.G. Wetzel. 2008. Suspended sediment, carbon and nitrogen fluxes and transformations during the dewatering of a low-head impoundment. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences doi:10.1029/2007JG000654

Orr, C.H., E.H. Stanley, K.A. Wilson, and J.C. Finlay. 2007. Changes in denitrification following reintroduction of flooding to a leveed Midwestern floodplain. Ecological Applications 17: 2365–2376.

Stanley, E.H., M.J. Catalono, N. Mercado-Silva and C.H. Orr. 2007. Implications of small dam removal for distribution of non-native trout in Central Wisconsin. River Research and Applications 23:792-798.

Orr, C.H., K.L. Rogers, and E.H. Stanley. 2006. Phosphorus uptake and channel geometry following small dam removal. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25:556-568.

Orr, C.H. and E.H. Stanley. 2006. Vegetation development and restoration potential of drained reservoirs following dam removal in Wisconsin. River Research and Application 22:281-295.

Doyle, M.W., E.H. Stanley, C.H. Orr, A.R Selle, and J.M. Harbor. 2005. Fluvial geomorphic controls on stream ecosystem processes: Lessons from the heartland of small dam removals. Geomorphology 71: 227-244.

Orr, C.H. and B.M Roth, J.D. Gonzales, K.J. Forshay, M.M. Papenfus, and R.D.G. Wassell. 2004. An Examination of Physical and Regulatory Variables Leading to Small Dam Removal in Wisconsin. Environmental Management 33(1):99-109.

Overdevest, C., C.H. Orr and C. Stepenuk. 2004. Volunteer stream monitoring and local participation in natural resource issues. Human Ecology Review 11(2):177-185.

My husband David and I have three children and we study Ueshiro Shorin-ryu karate in Northfield, MN and at Carleton.

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Cailin Huyck Orr ’96

Education & Professional History

Highlights & Recent Activity

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

Office

Phone

Email

Curriculum Vitae

Websites