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Cailin Huyck Orr
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Assistant Professor |
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School of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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Webster 1155 Lab 1151 |
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509-335-8868 | |
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Orr Lab website |
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Research interests:
I am a limnologist in the spirit of limnology as "the study of inland
waters". My research bridges aquatic ecosystem ecology and fluvial
geomorphology with the goal to improve our ability to restore ecosystem functions
to river-floodplain systems by better understanding the fundamental interaction
between physiographic setting and ecological processes. With collaborators in
geomorphology, engineering and landscape ecology, I am working to describe the
transport and transformation of ecologically important nutrients through river-floodplain
ecosystems.
Courses:
- EX/RP 275 Sustainable Watersheds and Communities
- GEO 260 Oceanography
- ES/RP 592 Stream Ecology
Selected Publications:
- 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.
- 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.
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