Carol Ormand
Geoscience Content Developer
Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College608-213-1618; cormand@carleton.edu
Projects * Publications * Experience * Education * Hobbies
Projects
I started working for SERC in the fall of 2005. I had been a visiting assistant professor at a couple of small liberal arts colleges for the previous five years, so I was well-prepared for my first assignment: developing websites of resources for Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences and for graduate students and postdocs Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences. I also help facilitate the associated Cutting Edge workshops. In 2008 I helped facilitate our workshop and developed the Cutting Edge website on the Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience.
Over time, my responsibilities have expanded to include similar work for other projects, including our Building Strong Geoscience Departments project -- developing our online collections of resources and facilitating the associated workshops.
For On the Cutting Edge:For Building Strong Geoscience Departments:
- The Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience (2008)
- Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Preparing for An Academic Career in the Geosciences: Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Visiting Workshop Program (2009-2010)
- Strengthening Your Geoscience Program: A Practical Workshop with Ideas and Examples (2009)
- Assessing Geoscience Programs: Theory and Practice (2009)
- Strategies for Successful Recruitment of Geoscience Majors: Conceptual Framework and Practical Suggestions (2007)
- Connecting Geoscience Departments to the Future of Science: New Structures for Research and Curriculum (2007)
- The Role of Departments in Preparing Future Geoscience Professionals (2007)
I'm also involved in a research project through SILC: the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center. We are investigating the development of spatial thinking skills, and particularly what instructional strategies are most helpful for novices developing these skills. My background in structural geology comes in handy for this.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Geoscience Education
Jump down to 2009 * 2008 * 2007 and prior
2009
- Harwood, Cara L., Carol Ormand, Cathryn Manduca, and Thomas F. Shipley (2009). Differences in Development of Spatial and Object Visualization Ability in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Portland, OR). See abstract.
- Kirk, Karin, Cathryn Manduca, Carol Ormand, and John McDaris (2009). Resources for Designing, Selecting, and Teaching with Visualizations in the Geoscience Classroom (Acrobat (PDF) 25.8MB Dec22 09): American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA).
- Manduca, Cathryn, R. Heather Macdonald, Carol J. Ormand, and P. Geoffrey Feiss (2009). Strengthening Geoscience Departments Through Shared Knowledge: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Portland, OR). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol J., Dedre Gentner, Benjamin Jee, Thomas F. Shipley, Basil Tikoff, David Uttal, and Cathryn Manduca (2009). Finding Fault: Laboratory Experiments and Classroom Studies on Identifying Faults in Images (Acrobat (PDF) 16.7MB Oct30 09): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Portland, OR). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol J., Cathryn Manduca, Jenefer Husman, Katrien Kraft, David Mogk, and Karl Wirth (2009). Teaching Metacognition: A Summary of Successful Strategies from the 2008 "On the Cutting Edge" Workshop (Acrobat (PDF) 13.2MB Oct30 09): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Portland, OR). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol J., Cathryn Manduca, and R. Heather Macdonald (2009). New Resources on the Building Strong Geoscience Departments Website (Acrobat (PDF) 8MB Dec15 09): American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA).
- Richardson, Randall M., Carolyn Eyles, and Carol J. Ormand (2009). Recruitment Strategies for Geoscience Majors: Conceptual Framework and Practical Suggestions (Acrobat (PDF) 25.7MB Dec10 09): American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA).
2008
- Macdonald, R. Heather, Richelle M. Allen-King, Robyn Wright Dunbar, Cathryn A. Manduca and Carol J. Ormand (2008). A Course of One's Own: Issues, Challenges, and Resources for Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Early Career Faculty: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Houston, TX). See abstract.
- Manduca, Cathryn, R. Heather Macdonald, P. Geoffrey Feiss, Randall M. Richardson, and Carol J. Ormand (2008). Building Strong Geoscience Departments: Resources and Opportunities (Acrobat (PDF) 3.4MB Dec11 08): American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA). Eos Trans. AGU, 89 (53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED31A-0577.
- Manduca, Cathryn, R. Heather Macdonald, P. Geoffrey Feiss, Randall M. Richardson, Timothy J. Bralower, Carolyn H. Eyles, and Carol J. Ormand (2008). Geoscience Departments and the Workforce: Bringing Together Student Interests and Industry Needs: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Houston, TX). See abstract.
- Manduca, Cathryn, Dedre Gentner, Mark P. Holden, Carol J. Ormand, Benjamin Jee, Bradley B. Sageman, Thomas F. Shipley, Basil Tikoff and David H. Uttal (2008). Geoscience Perception: Expert and Novice Experience of Graphs, Outcrops, and Landscapes: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Houston, TX). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol, Karin Kirk, R. Heather Macdonald, Cathryn Manduca, and Barbara Tewksbury (2008). NEW Online Resources for Teaching Introductory-Level Geoscience Courses (Acrobat (PDF) 24MB Oct14 08): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Houston, TX). See abstract.
- Richardson, Randall M. and Carol J. Ormand (2008). Survey of Geoscience Departments Finds Shared Goals and Challenges. (Acrobat (PDF) 415kB Oct1 08) Eos, v. 89, n. 27, p. 242-243. Abstract available on the AGU site.
2007 and prior
- Macdonald, R. Heather, Carol J. Ormand, Cathryn Manduca, Robyn Wright-Dunbar, and Richelle Allen-King (2007). Getting Started in Academic Careers: On the Cutting Edge Resources for Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Early Career Faculty (Acrobat (PDF) 3MB Mar3 08): American Geophysical Union fall meeting (San Francisco, CA). Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED11B-0475.
- Ormand, Carol J., R. Heather Macdonald, Cathryn Manduca, Geoff Feiss, and Tim Bralower (2007). The Changing Landscape of Geoscience Careers and Education: New Online Resources from Building Strong Geoscience Departments (Acrobat (PDF) 2.4MB Mar3 08): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver, CO). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol J., R. Heather Macdonald, and Cathryn Manduca (2006). Managing Your Career: New "On the Cutting Edge" Online Resources for Graduate Students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Early-Career Faculty (Acrobat (PDF) 2.8MB Dec22 09): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Philadelphia, PA). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol J. (2004). Keeping it Real: Making the Geology of the National Parks Relevant for Non-science Majors (Acrobat (PDF) 8.6MB Jan19 09): Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver, CO).
- Tullis, J., Campbell, P., Czeck, D., Harrison, M., Kopf, C., Ormand, C., Reinen, L., Sussman, A., Torrez, B., and Wojtal, S. (2004). Why and How to Include Grain-scale Deformation Mechanisms, Microstructures, and Rheology in Undergraduate Structural Geology Courses: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver, CO).
Structural Geology
- Czeck, Dyanna, and Carol J. Ormand (2007). Geometry and folding history of the Baraboo Syncline: Implications for the Mazatzal Orogeny in the north-central U.S.: Precambrian Research, v. 157, p. 203-213.
- Czeck, Dyanna, and Carol J. Ormand (2005). Using cleavage refraction, microstructural analysis, and mineralogy to learn about rheology in the Baraboo Quartzite: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Salt Lake City, UT). See abstract.
- Ormand, Carol J. and Peter J. Hudleston (2003). Strain paths of three small folds from the Appalachian Valley and Ridge, Maryland: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 25, p. 1841-1854, 2003.
- Ormand, Carol J. and Dyanna Czeck (2003). Structure and kinematics of the Baraboo Syncline: a three-dimensional analysis: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Seattle, WA).
- Ormand, Carol J. and Pam Olson (2001). An analysis of fault systems in an experimental stratigraphic basin, with a comparison to the Mid-Continent Rift System: Geological Society of America annual meeting (Boston, MA).
Experience
Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2005-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, 2002-2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI, 2000-2002
Graduate Assistant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1992-2000
Adjunct Instructor, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1997
Education
Ph. D. in Structural Geology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2000
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
B. A. in Mathematics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1989
- Graduated Cum Laude; Member, Sigma Xi (Scientific Honor Society)
Hobbies
I'm a bit of a fanatic about traditional American contra and square dancing and music; to see what I mean, check out my dance homepage.
I also enjoy quilting. For my first quilting project, I combined these two interests and made a dance t-shirt quilt, as you can see in this photo. (Click on the image to see it up close and personal.)

