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Cailin Huyck Orr
Science Education Resource Center (SERC), School of Engineering
Carleton College
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Huyck is pronounced 'hike' like a long walk.
As the Associate Director at the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College, I am involved development and management of research, outreach and professional development projects to improve undergraduate STEM education and support for faculty members who teach in STEM and allied fields. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary teaching and learning, faculty networks, programmatic change and working towards a diverse and sustainable future. My husband and I live with our three kids in Northfield, Minnesota and we practice Ueshiro Shorin-ryu karate.
Projects as investigator
- Cultural Change in Geoscience C-ChanGe: Transforming Departmental Culture through Faculty Agents of Change
- Compass: Advancing Earth education resource discovery.
- Belonging in Geoscience Education Workshop: Planning to Enact Cultural Change
Partner-led projects
- AK UNiTE Building a community of practice around learning cultural humility in mentoring Indigenous Alaskan biology students.
- HHMI IE3: Learning Community 4 changing policy, supporting faculty development, and identifying optimal sources of evidence in service to Inclusive Excellence in higher education.
- Accelerating Systemic Change Network a network of individuals and institutions to more quickly advance STEM education programs and inclusive practice. This includes the associated Transforming Institutions bi-annual conference.
- CLASP: broadening participation and deepening its community of practice. This is a pilot project to develop strategies for building the capacity and effectiveness of research administration across a diverse range of institutions, culminating in an in-person meeting.
- Macrosystems EDDIE teaching materials to help students learn the foundations of macrosystems ecology through modeling and forecasting.
- Positive Mental Heath in the Geosciences: understanding how mental health is being addressed in geoscience communities and identify outstanding needs in the broader academic geoscience community.
- National Collaborative for Research on Food Water and Energy Education
- Teaching Computation using MATLAB: in partnership with MathWorks.
Past projects
- Project EDDIE: Earth and Ecosystems teaching materials to engage students in using data and improving their quantitative reasoning.
- Bridging to STEM Excellence a consortium for faculty development
- CUREnet 2 course-based undergraduate research experiences in biology.
- InTeGrate: STEM Talent Expansion Program Center Interdisciplinary teaching about Earth for a sustainable future.
- IINSPIRE LSAMP Alliance is committed to broadening the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM education in the Midwest.
- Network of STEM Education Centers an organization of campus-based centers that serve as catalysts for transformation in STEM.
My background from before joining SERC in 2014 is in limnology, particularly lotic systems, and my previous research focused on interdisciplinary stream and river dynamics targeting our understanding of how physical restoration could restore or enhance ecological processes and quantifying the sources and fate of anthropogenic nutrients.
Videos related to my work:
InTeGrate video for the STEM for all Showcase
Alumni Profile for the Carleton CUBES project
Water Sustainability Climate Columbia River project press release
Project Leader
Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe) part of C-ChanGe
The Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe) project works toward a vision of the future where all people at each stage of their career experience academic geoscience as a safe and welcoming environment where they feel empowered to learn and contribute without stifling their identities, and the community recognizes contributions from everyone. SERC leads the professional development of 2 cohorts of faculty change agents empowered to work in their own context to make successive, incremental changes, leading to positive cultural shifts within their home departments with the support of a community of practice made up of local and national peers. The project also raises the visibility of the many other groups working towards an inclusive geoscience discipline through a web-based network to support awareness, recognition, and connectivity of national partner projects working on geoscience cultural change.
About the EDDIE: Earth and Ecosystems Project part of Project EDDIE:About this Project:EDDIE Earth and Ecosystems
Jump to: Project Goals| Research, Evaluation, and Assessment | References | Project SupportFor Team Members Project Support Project EDDIE was supported by funding from NSF (Earth and Ecosystems IUSE Award 1821567; ...
Project EDDIE part of Project EDDIE
EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry and Exploration) is a suite of education projects composed of STEM disciplinary and educational researchers. We develop flexible classroom teaching modules using large, publicly available, sensor-based datasets to engage students in STEM and improve their quantitative reasoning.
Website Content Contributions
Course Module (1)
Unit 3: The Interconnected Nature of the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere part of Changing Biosphere
Using a systems dynamics approach, students will work in groups to conceptualize and construct a model of the global carbon cycle considering five major Earth systems: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, ...
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Activities (2)
Review for interdisiplinary science course (stream ecology, watersheds) part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
This is a large-scale participatory activity used to prompt students to review what they have learned and to think actively and cooperatively about the connections between the systems we have discussed prior to the ...
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Scenario building to understand complex systems part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Scenario building is a method of understanding and planning for outcomes of an uncertain future. It was initially developed by oil companies and was further developed during the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. In ...
Course (1)
Sustainable Watersheds and Communities part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Courses
Water and land use are explicitly linked through a complex set of challenges surrounding water quantity and quality. In the world today, water scarcities due to economic growth, ecosystem demands, and climate ...
Essay (1)
Demonstrating why sustainability is complex part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Essays
Cailin Huyck Orr, School of the Environment, Washington State University - Pullman Promoting sustainability is complicated and I am not convinced that we always understand how to do it well. This makes teaching ...
Conference Presentations (13)
Four Years of Discovery Improvements for SERC website visitors part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) hosts materials from more than 120 geoscience education projects. However, the project-focused nature of the SERC website means that information is siloed which presents ...
Other Contributions (5)
The Bridging to STEM Excellence Consortium Program part of Transforming Institutions Conference 2023:Program:Poster Presentations
The "Bridging to STEM Excellence" project (BTSE) aims to accelerate changes in teaching through formation of a consortium of national professional development organizations. The BTSE consortium ...
Communities
25 activities reviewed
July 2024 Transforming Institutions Conference 2023
June 2023 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2022
July 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2021
July 2021 2021 Transforming Institutions Conference
June 2021 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2020
July 2020 2019 Transforming Institutions Conference
April 2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2018
July 2018 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2017
July 2017 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2016
July 2016 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 NAGT Webinar Series Interest
Teaching Computation Interest Group
Teaching Geoscience with MATLAB Interest Group
LCC4 All Teams
NAGT All
North Star STEM Alliance Transfer Stakeholder Group
CUREnet Email Subscribers
CUREnet Newsletters
ASCN Member
Compass Community Discovery Advisors
PIti_19_symposia_1212_participants
EDDIE Module Development Mentors
PITeach the Earth
Workshop Leader (10 workshops)
January 2022Project EDDIE Module Development Workshop 2019
October 2019CUREnet Hampton Institute 2018
February 2018
Workshop Participant (49 workshops)
May 2023 Teaching Computation with MATLAB: MATLAB Workshop October 2022
October 2022 2022 IMPACT Workshop
June 2022