Emeritus Professor HP Moon had followed the spread from Eastern Europe of Corophium curvispinum into UK waters. He was also interested in invasive species found in local waterways. Despite Leicester’s location in the Midlands, this was a good place for his work on the shore crab Carcinus maenas with well-established marine aquaria located in the basement of the Adrian Building in the 1970s. His research was focussed on osmoregulation in Crustacea. In 1972 Bob returned to the UK and took up a lectureship in the Zoology Department at the University of Leicester, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. Both Bob and Jo were keen divers and in 1970 Bob co-founded the longstanding (and still active) Calypso Sub Aqua Club – the first purely SCUBA diving Club in Malta. After gaining his doctorate, Bob and his wife Joanna moved to Malta, where Bob lectured at the university for five years. The University has learned with regret of the death of Dr Robert (Bob) Roderick Harris who passed away on 11 January 2023.ĭr Muriel Walker, Zoology Department (1972–2003) writes:īob Harris read Zoology at the University of Southampton and undertook research towards his PhD at the Southampton Institute of Oceanography.
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