Dr. C. Patrick Reid earned his MS degree in 1966 and his doctorate in Forest Ecology from Duke University in 1968. His undergraduate degree was from the University of Missouri in 1961. His research has primarily focused on the physiology and ecology of mycorrhizae and water relations of forest trees.

From 1967 to 1969, Dr. Reid was a post-doctoral fellow with the U.S. Army as Research Plant Physiologist in the Plant Sciences Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland. In 1969, he went to Colorado State University's Department of Forest and Wood Sciences as Assistant Professor and remained there until 1986. While on special leave in 1973, he went to the Department of Botany of Sheffield University, United Kingdom, and in 1976-79 spent a sabbatical leave with CSIRO in Adelaide, S. Australia. In 1979, he served as host of the 4th North American Conference of Mycorrhizae, and from 1984 to 1987 he chaired the IUPRO Working Group on Root Physiology and Symbioses. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Innsbruck in 1985.

In 1986 Dr. Reid came to the School to serve as Chairman and Professor of the Department of Forestry until July 1991, and as Interim Director of the School from July 1991 to July 1992. He also chaired the Florida Forestry Forum.

Dr. Reid was author or co-author of 75 technical and other publications, has written chapters for nine books, and has edited one. He has been an invited expert to Cameroon, Costa Rica, France, Israel, and Germany. He is a Member of the Society of American Foresters and the Ecological Society of America.

He left the School in August 1992, to become Director and Professor of the School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, where he provides leadership in a diversity of programs -- landscape architecture, wildlife and fisheries, range land, and forest resources and watershed resources.