Catherine Reid

Catherine Mary Reid is a New Zealand paleontologist, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in palaeogeography of waterways and the evolution and ecology of bryozoans.

Catherine Reid
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Auckland, University of Auckland, University of Tasmania
Theses	The paleontology, paleoecology and stratigraphy of Lower Miocene sediments in the Waipatiki/Mangatuna area, Wairarapa, New Zealand (1996) The Permian bryozoa of Tasmania, New South Wales and southern Thailand: their taxonomy, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and biogeography (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Clive Burrett, Patrick Quilty
Academic work
Institutions	University of Canterbury

Academic career

Reid earned a Master in Science at the University of Auckland in 1996, where she was awarded a Hastie Scholarship by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand. Reid then completed a PhD at the University of Tasmania on aquatic invertebrates called bryozoans in Tasmania, New South Wales and Southern Thailand, supervised by Clive Burrett and Pat Quilty. Reid joined the faculty of the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in the School of Earth and Environment in 2024.

Reid is interested in the ecology and evolution of bryozoans, and how changes in ocean chemistry impact on them, and has researched these internationally. In New Zealand, she investigates the geological history of waterways and estuaries, using sedimentology and microfossils to investigate the human impacts on these areas. She is a member of the Waterways Centre, a joint research initiative between Lincoln University and the University of Canterbury to improve freshwater management.

Reid was an associate investigator on a 2021 funded Marsden grant titled Avian diversity in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction: Zealandia as a hub for the evolution of marine birds, and led by Vanesa De Pietri at Canterbury. Reid was part of a team investigating ancient penguin fossils, including the recently discovered Kupoupou stilwelli.

In 2014 she served as secretary on the national committee of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand.

Selected works

• Mark C. Quigley; Matthew W. Hughes; Brendon A. Bradley; et al. (March 2016). "The 2010–2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence: Environmental effects, seismic triggering thresholds and geologic legacy". Tectonophysics. 672–673: 228–274. Bibcode:2016Tectp.672..228Q. doi:10.1016/J.TECTO.2016.01.044. ISSN 0040-1951. Wikidata Q57870952.
• William Power; Kate Clark; Darren N. King; et al. (12 May 2017). "Tsunami runup and tide-gauge observations from the 14 November 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand". Pure and Applied Geophysics. 174 (7): 2457–2473. doi:10.1007/S00024-017-1566-2. ISSN 0033-4553. Wikidata Q105701017.
• Bruce W. Hayward; Hugh R. Grenfell; Annette D. Pullin; Catherine Reid; Chris J. Hollis (March 1997). "Foraminiferal associations in the upper Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 27 (1): 21–51. doi:10.1080/03014223.1997.9517526. ISSN 0303-6758. Wikidata Q59764452.
• B. Rogala; N. P. James; C. M. Reid (1 July 2007). "Deposition of Polar Carbonates During Interglacial Highstands on an Early Permian Shelf, Tasmania". Journal of Sedimentary Research. 77 (7): 587–606. doi:10.2110/JSR.2007.060. ISSN 1527-1404. Wikidata Q70644584.
• CM Reid; NK Thompson; JRM Irvine; TE Laird (10 August 2012). "Sand volcanoes in the Avon–Heathcote Estuary produced by the 2010–2011 Christchurch Earthquakes: implications for geological preservation and expression". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 55 (3): 249–254. doi:10.1080/00288306.2012.674051. ISSN 0028-8306. Wikidata Q124409086.
• C. M. Reid; N.P. James; B. Beauchamp; T.K. Kyser (June 2007). "Faunal turnover and changing oceanography: Late Palaeozoic warm-to-cool water carbonates, Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 249 (1–2): 128–159. doi:10.1016/J.PALAEO.2007.01.007. ISSN 0031-0182. Wikidata Q124409087.