Dr Reid’s research focuses on understanding patterns and processes in floodplain and river ecosystems across a range of spatial and temporal scales. This focus requires interdisciplinary research, incorporating palaeoecology, food web ecology, vegetation community ecology, geomorphology, hydrology and ecohydrology. Dr Reid completed his PhD on the palaeoecology of billabongs on the Goulburn River in Victoria, at Monash University in 1997. He went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at Monash, where his research focused on developing approaches for monitoring the effectiveness of environmental water allocations on flood plain wetlands. Upon completion of this fellowship, he took up a second post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, where he developed models for reconstructing long-term records of lake productivity to aid managers in detecting eutrophication trends in response to human land use.