• Master of Science, Geology Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
• Bachelor of Science, Geology, Chemistry minor University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Bachelor of Science Biology, Animal emphasis University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Geology and Biology, Arizona Community College Certificated, State Board of Directors for Community Colleges of Arizona (Issued January 1997, Expired May 31, 2001).

• Fall 1999 to Present:  Earth Science (Geoscience) Instructor- Center for Science, Industry and Natural Resources, Shasta College, Redding, California.  Instruct a wide variety of Earth Science courses; develop Earth Science curriculum and transfer program; establish articulation agreements with four-year institutions; design, develop and publish a geoscience department web page; establish internet course support for most geoscience classes offered; review, assemble and deliver multimedia instructional materials including computer-based instruction; develop and deliver internet hybrid courses (on-line lecture and on-campus lab); justify and manage supplies and field trip budgets; consult with and assist part-time faculty; participate in part-time faculty selection; establish local relationships with k-12 teachers; establish relationships with area geoscience professionals in industry and government; create and assign CD-ROM and internet activities in the Earth Sciences; manage course grading, assignments, testing and field trips; create, assign and oversee laboratory exercises; assemble appropriate laboratory materials; investigate the local geology; create local field trips and assign and oversee field trip exercises; counsel and advise of Earth Science transfer students; participate in area, center, and college meetings and activities; participate in college governance as the science representative.
• Course experience:  General Earth Science Survey (including internet hybrid development); Introductory Geology (including internet hybrid development); Physical Geology; Historical Geology; Ancient Life (including internet hybrid development);  Introduction to the Geology of California Geology; Earthquakes, Volcanoes and other Geologic Hazards; Oceanography; Geology of Mt. Shasta and vicinity; Geology of the Modoc Plateau; Geology of the North Coast ranges; Geology of the Point Reyes National Seashore; Geology of the Northern California Coast; General Biology; Human Sexuality.
• Spring 1999:  Geology Instructor- Division of Science, Coconino Community College.  Instruct assigned courses; organize and prepare lecture and field material for assigned courses; create and assign field-based projects; counsel and assist students with lecture and  field observations; evaluate students; maintain student records.
• Course experience:  Geology  of Northern Arizona.
• Fall 1997 to Summer 1999:  Geology Instructor - Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University.  Instruct assigned courses; organize and prepare lecture material for assigned courses; computer-based instruction; create and assign projects including CD-ROM and web-based assignments; counsel and assist students with lecture and laboratory material; evaluate students; maintain  student records.
• Course experience:  Introductory Geology; Physical Geology; Ancient Life; Geology of Arizona.

• Spring 1996 to Summer 1999:  Laboratory Supplies Controller - Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University. Organize and monitor departmental inventory; order laboratory stock; design, install, and maintain audio/visual devices, including multimedia presentation equipment and expansion of department multimedia capabilities; monitor expenses regarding various projects; supervise the petrologic and  petrographic preparation laboratory; supervise and train graduate/undergraduate students on sample preparation; supervise and curate rock and fossil collections; prepare, supply, and support field classes and research; supervise and train student workers; inspect and maintain department laboratories; organize and produce geologically oriented displays, posters, and presentations for faculty and the general public; serve on department committees.

• Fall 1995 to Summer 1999:  Geology Lecturer - Elderhostel Program, Northern Arizona University.  Develop and instruct courses; organize and prepare lecture material for courses; create and oversee field trips and provide field lectures; developed new curriculum.
• Course experience:  Fossil Creatures of  the Colorado Plateau; Geology of the Grand Canyon (with field trip to Sycamore Canyon); Geology of the Sedona Area and Verde Valley (with field trip); Canyon Cutting; Grand Canyon Field Trip:  a Journey Through Time.

 
• 10-1997 to 12-1997:  Paleontological Monitor - Museum of Northern Arizona.  Monitor the stratigraphy of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation for  paleontological artifacts including vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, plant fossils, and  coprolites; maintain field log; graphically locate, catalogue and describe collected specimens; assist with specimen curation.

• Fall 1994 to Spring 1996:  Geology Graduate Teaching Assistant - Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University.  Instructed assigned courses; organize and prepare lecture material for assigned courses;  counsel and assist students with laboratory, field and lecture material/observations; evaluated students; coordinated laboratory and lecture courses; provided logistical support for geology  field camp; lecture substitute for faculty absences.
• Course experience:  Invertebrate Paleontology; Geology of  Arizona; Geology Field Camp; Geology of the Planets; Introductory Geology.

 
• Spring 1992 to Summer 1994:  Biotechnician - National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution.  Conducted nutritional research on the threatened desert tortoise (Gopherus agasssiz); field administrator; ordered and inventoried lab supplies; coordinated graduate and undergraduate research projects; supervised volunteer workers; coordinated field office and main office relations; provided logistical support for visiting researchers and field  investigations; maintained experimental population.

• Fall 1991 to Summer 1992:  Geotechnician - Department of Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  Thin section production and sample preparation for faculty, graduate and  undergraduate students, and outside sources; supervise sample preparation laboratory; order stock; maintain equipment and production standards.

• Fall 1990 to 1993:  Biology Teaching Assistant - Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  Instructed and organized assigned courses; coordinated laboratory and lecture courses;  ordered laboratory supplies; maintained laboratory classes.
• Course experience:  Human  Biology; Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy.

• 8^th Annual Anti-Apathy Award, Associated Student Body of Shasta College, Spring 2006.
• 7^th Annual Anti-Apathy Award, Associated Student Body of Shasta College, Spring 2004.
• Project A.R.I.S.E.
• Excellent Educator Award nomination by the student body at Shasta College, Spring 2003.
• 5^th Annual Anti-Apathy Award, Associated Student Body of Shasta College, Spring 2002.
• Supportive role in pursuit of an Eisenhower grant awarded to the Shasta College and the Shasta County Office of Education, Fall 2001.
• Letter of  Recognition, Vice-President of Academic Affairs and the Curriculum Committee of the Academic Senate, Shasta College, Spring 2000.
• 3^rd Annual Anti-Apathy Award, Associated Student Body of Shasta College, Spring 2000.
• Certificate of Appreciation, Northern Arizona University Disabilities Services, 1997.
• Curriculum Development Mini-Grant, Office of Instructional Development and Faculty Growth,  Northern Arizona University, 1996.
• Graduate Research Exposition, Northern Arizona University, third place, 1996.
• Geological Society of America Research Grant (noted among top 4% of funded applicants), 1995.
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate College, Northern Arizona University, 1996.
• Tom and Rose Bedwell Award, Sigma Xi chapter, Northern Arizona University, 1995.
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Grants-in-Aid, Honorable Mention, 1995.
• Friday Lunch Clubbe Thesis Grant, Northern Arizona University, Geology Alumni, 1995.
• Graduate Research Exposition, Northern Arizona University, honorable mention, 1995.
• In-State and Out-of-State tuition waiver, Northern Arizona University, Graduate College, 1994, 95.
• Bernada E. French Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Geology Department, 1992.
• Tarr Award (Outstanding Senior in Geology) runner-up, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1992.
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon Honor Society for the Earth Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1992.
• National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, Northern Arizona  University, Geology Department, 1991.

• Field trip Co-Leader, Far Western Section meeting of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, April 2002.
• Science advisor to the AmeriCorp/TRDP Cesar Chavez grant award, Shasta College, Spring 2002.
• Science representative, Academic Senate, Shasta College, Spring 2001 to present.
• Vice President, Academic Senate, Shasta College, Fall 2001.
• Faculty Co-Advisor to the Science Club, Shasta College, Fall 2000 to present.
• Faculty Advisor to the Geoscience Club, Shasta College, Spring 2000.
• Field trip Co-Leader, 9^th International Early Vertebrate/Lower Vertebrate Paleontologists Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, May 2001.
• Member, National Association of Geoscience Teachers.
• Member, Geological Society of America.
• Volunteer, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
• Participant, presenter, and field trip co-leader in several regional and national professional meetings.

• Studying the physics of how a closed-faced golf club can launch a slice.
• Slowly learning conversational Italian.
• Patiently learning piano and guitar.
• Map collecting.
• Swimming and water polo (the horse-less variety).
• Star-gazing (the celestial kind).
• Rock and fossil collecting (was there any doubt?)

9^th International Meeting of Early Vertebrate/Lower Vertebrate Paleontologists Field Guide, 2000, Elliott, D. K., Reed, R. C., Johnsons, H. G., Schultze, H. P., Smith, C. D., and Dehler, C. M..   My contribution included the Paleozoic Overview and focused discussion on the Devonian stratigraphy of Utah and eastern Nevada along with accompanying graphics.

A new species of Allocryptaspis and the mouhthparts of the Cyathaspidae, Elliott, D. K., Reed, R. C. and Loeffler, E. J., 2000, 9^th International Meeting of Early Vertebrate/Lower vertebrate Paleontologists (abs.), oral presentation.

Blieck, A. R. M, Cloutier, R. Elliott, D. K., Goujet, D., Loboziak, S., Reed, R. C., Rodina, O, Steemans,  P., Valiukeviciuus, J. J., V’Yushkova, L., Yolkin, E. A., and Young, V. T., 2000 ,  Biostratigraphical correlations of Early Devonian vertebrate assemblages of the Old Red  Sandstone Continent, in, Blieck, A. R. M. and Turner, S. ed.s, IGCP 328 Final Report, Courier Forchunginstitut Senckenberg.

Reed, R. C. and Elliott, D. K., (work in progress), Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Water Canyon Formation and implications for vertebrate biostratigraphy in the western United  States.  Targeted journal: Geology.  5 figures and 12 pp.

Elliott, D. K. and Reed, R. C., (work nearly complete), A new species of Allocryptaspis from the Water Canyon Formation, northern Utah.  Targeted journal: Journal of Paleontology. 4 figures, 1  table, 10 pp.

Reed, R. C. and Dorsey, R., J., (work in progress), Mid-Cambrian to Mississippian subsidence analysis along the paleo-coast of western North America.  Targeted journal:  Tectonics.  5  figures, 15 pp.

Reed, R. C., 1998, Sedimentology and depositional history of the Lower and Middle Devonian Water Canyon Formation, northwestern Utah, Rocky Mountain Section, Geological Society of  America, 50th Annual Meeting (abs.), oral presentation.

Reed, R. C. and Elliott, D. K., 1998, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Devonian Water Canyon Formation, northwestern Utah , Rocky Mountain Section, Geological Society of  America, 50th Annual Meeting (abs.), oral presentation.

Elliott, D. K., Reed, R. C., and Johnson, H., 1998, Devonian vertebrates of Utah, in, Gillette,  D., ed., Vertebrate paleontology of Utah, Utah Geological Survey Special Volume.
 

Reed, R. C., 1997, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Lower and Middle Devonian Water Canyon Formation, northern Utah, unpublished Masters Thesis, Northern Arizona  University.

Reed, R. C., 1997, Volcanoes and this dynamic planet, College of Arts and Sciences, Northern  Arizona University.  Poster display.

Reed, R. C., 1997, The Arizona Earthquake Information Center and Seismic Observatory:  its  history and inception, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University.  Poster display.

Reed, R. C., 1997, Geologic history of the emplacement and enrichment of the Jerome massive sulfide deposits, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University.  Poster display.

Reed, R. C., 1996, Paleogeography, paleoecology, and tectonic history of the Lower and Middle Devonian Water Canyon Formation, northern Utah, Northern Arizona University  Graduate Research Exposition. Poster session.

Reed, R. C., 1996, Mineral fluorescence, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University.  Poster and interactive display.

Reed, R. C., 1996, Ancient life, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University.  Poster  display.

Metcalf, R. V., Smith, E., I., Walker, J. D., Reed, R. C. and Gonzales, D. A., 1995, Isotopic disequilibrium among commingled hybrid magmas:  evidence for a two-stage magma  mixing-commingling process in the Mt. Perkins pluton, Arizona:  Journal of Geology, v. 103, p.  509-527.

Reed, R. C., 1995, Early Paleozoic tectonic subsidence and coastal embayments of the western United States, Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science  (abs.), v. 30, p. 38. Oral presentation.

Reed, R. C., 1995, Stratigraphy of the Lower (?) Devonian Water Canyon Formation, northwestern Utah, Northern Arizona University Graduate Research Exposition.  Poster session.

Reed, R. C. and Ormord, M. R., 1995, Paleontology at Northern Arizona University, College of Arts and Sciences, Northern Arizona University. Poster display.

Reed, R. C. and Metcalf, R. V., 1993, Emplacement history of the mid-Miocene Mt. Perkins pluton, Mohave County, Arizona:   Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Arizona- Nevada Academy  of Sciences (abs.), v. 28, p. 43. Oral presentation.

Johnson, W. M. and Reed, R. C., 1993, Potential extrusive equivalents of the Miocene Mt. Perkins pluton, Mohave County, Arizona:  Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the  Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences (abs.), v. 28, p. 44. Oral Presentation.

Metcalf, R. V., Smith, E. J., Nall, K. E. and Reed, R. C., 1992, The Mt. Perkins pluton:  Shallow-level magma mixing and mingling during Miocene extension:  Geological Society of America  Annual Meeting (abs.) v. 24, no. 7, p. A8.