Professional Preparation

 

Full (Titular) Research Professor in Fish and Aquatic Ecology, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales Alexander Von Humboldt, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, 2014-present.

Visiting Professor in Fish and Aquatic Ecology, Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, 2011-2014.

Part-time Senior Lecturer in Fish and Aquatic Ecology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013-2014.

Permanent lecturer in Fish and Aquatic Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK, 2007-2013.

Max Planck Research Fellow, Departments of Physiological Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Limnology/Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, 2005-2007.

HEA Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Martin Ryan Institute for Marine Science/Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2003-2005.

Fisheries & aquatic ecologist, Ecological Appraisal Unit, Environment Agency, UK (Government Agency), 2002–2003.

Senior Aquatic Ecologist, Ecological Consultancy Services, Casella Science and Environment Ltd, Liverpool (Private Science Consultancy), 2000-2002.

 

PhD University of Ulster, Freshwater Laboratory, School of Biological and Environmental Studies, 1997-2001.

Technician - Biological Survey of the Turks & Caicos Isles, British West Indies, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1997.

BSc(Hons) Environmental Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1994-1997.

Laboratory Technician/Senior Laboratory Technician, RAPRA Technology Limited, Shawbury, Shropshire (Research Institute), 1988-1994.

 

Selected Publications

 

Molina, V., Hernandez, K. Dorador, C., Eissler, Y. Hengst, M. Pérez, V. & Harrod, C. (2016) Bacterial active community cycling in response to solar radiation and their influence on nutrient changes in a high altitude wetland. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Reddin, C.J., O’Conner, N.E, & Harrod, C. (2016) Living to the range limit: consumer isotopic variation increases with environmental stress. PeerJ.

Østbye, K., Harrod, C., Gregersen, F., Klepaker, T., Schulz, M., Schluter, D. & Vøllestad, L.A. (2016) Head morphology, trophic position and habitat use in the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus in postglacial Norwegian lakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Fleming, N.E.C., Harrod, C., Newton, J. & Houghton, J.D.R. (2015) Not all jellyfish are equal: isotopic evidence for inter- and intraspecific variation in jellyfish trophic ecology. PeerJ.

Reddin, C.J., Docmac, F.M., O’Connor, N.E., Bothwell, J.H. & Harrod, C. (2015) Coastal upwelling drives intertidal community composition and trophic ecology. PLOS One.

Harrod, C. (2014) Stable isotope analysis reveal hidden reliance on scyphozoan jellyfish in a commensal fish: editorial comment on the feature article by D'Ambra et al. Marine Biology.

Graham, C.T., Harrison, S.S.C. & Harrod, C. (2014) Differences in the contributions of dietary water to the hydrogen stable isotope ratios of cultured Atlantic salmon and Arctic charr tissues. Hydrobiologia.

Graham, C.T., Harrison, S.S.C. & Harrod, C. (2013). Development of non-lethal sampling of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in salmonids: effects of lipid and inorganic components of fins. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies.

Ryan, C., McHugh, B., Trueman, C. N., Harrod, C., Sabin, R., Deaville, R., Berrow, S. & O'Connor, I. (2013). Stable isotope analysis of baleen reveals resource partitioning among sympatric rorquals and population structure in fin whales. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Maloy, A. P., Nelle, P., Culloty, S. C., Slater, J. W. & Harrod, C. (2013). Identifying trophic variation in a marine suspension feeder: DNA- and stable isotope-based dietary analysis in Mytilus spp. Marine Biology.

 

Manousaki, T., Hull, P., Kusche, H., Machado-Schiaffino, G., Harrod, C., Elmer, K. & Meyer, A. (2013). Parsing parallel evolution: trophic ecology, morphometrics and comparative transcriptomics in the repeated evolution of hypertrophied-lips in the Nicaraguan Midas cichlid fish adaptive radiations. Molecular Ecology.

 

Elmer, K., Lehtonen, T., Kautt, A., Harrod, C. & Meyer, A. (2012). Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times. BMC Biology

 

Ryan, C., McHugh, B., Trueman, C.N., Harrod, C., Berrow, S.D. & O'Connor, I. (2012) Accounting for the effects of lipids in stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N values) analysis of skin and blubber of balaenopterid whales. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

 

Fink, P., Reichwald, E. S., Harrod, C. & Rossberg, A. G. (2012). Determining trophic niche width: An experimental test of the stable isotope approach. Oikos.

 

Syväranta, J., Harrod, C., Kubicek, L., Cappanera, V. & Houghton, J. D. R. (2012). Stable isotopes challenge the perception of ocean sunfish Mola mola as obligate jellyfish predators. Journal of Fish Biology.

 

Fleming, N. E. C., Houghton, J. D. R., Magill, C. L. & Harrod, C. (2011) Preservation methods alter stable isotope values in gelatinous zooplankton: implications for interpreting trophic ecology. Marine Biology.

 

Durbec, M. The, B.N., Grey, J., Harrod, C. Stolzenberga, N., Chappaza, R. & Cavallia, L (2010) Biological influences on inter and intraspecific isotopic variability among paired chondrostome fishes. Comptes Rendus Biologies.

 

Grey, J., Graham, C.T., Britton, J.R. & Harrod, C. (2009). Stable isotope analysis of archived roach (Rutilus rutilus) scales for retrospective study of shallow lake responses to nutrient reduction. Freshwater Biology.

 

Mallela, J. & Harrod, C. (2008) δ13C and δ15N reveal significant differences in the coastal foodwebs of the seas surrounding the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

 

Griffiths, D. & Harrod, C. (2007) Natural mortality, growth parameters and environmental temperature in fishes revisited. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

 

Kiljunen, M., Grey, J., Sinisalo, T., Harrod, C., & Jones, R.I. (2006) A revised model for lipid-normalising δ13C values from aquatic organisms, with implications for isotope mixing models. Journal of Applied Ecology 43, 1213-1222

Harrod, C. & J. Grey. (2006) Isotopic variation complicates analysis of trophic relations within the fish community of Plußsee: a small, deep, stratifying lake. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 167, 281-299

Harrod, C., Grey, J., McCarthy, T.K. & Morrissey, M (2005) Stable isotope analyses provide new insights into ecological plasticity in a mixohaline population of European eel. Oecologia 144, 673-683