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Jodi Rowley is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales and Curator of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Biology at the Australian Museum. She obtained a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours Class 1) from UNSW in 2002 and a PhD from James Cook University in 2007, where her research used radio-tracking to study why chytridiomycosis caused declines in certain rainforest frog populations. Following her doctorate, she moved to Cambodia in 2006 for amphibian research in Southeast Asia, leading expeditions in remote mountains and training young biologists. In 2008, she joined the Australian Museum and UNSW in her current position. Her work centers on amphibian diversity, ecology, and conservation, with field expeditions across Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. She has co-discovered over 40 new frog species, including the vampire flying frog, described novel Australian frogs, searched for species feared extinct, and examined mass mortality events in frogs.
Rowley leads FrogID, the Australian Museum's national citizen science project launched in 2017, which has gathered over one million frog records. She has co-authored more than 150 publications, including co-editing the book Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands (2018, CSIRO Publishing), chapters 'Amphibians, Biodiversity of' (Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2024, Elsevier) and 'Finding frogs in the most unexpected of places' (Wild Science, 2024, CSIRO Publishing), and papers 'Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats' (Nature, 2023) and 'Too much of a good thing? Flooding poses a hidden threat to frogs on a wildfire-prone continent' (Biological Conservation, 2026). Recognized as one of Qantas's 100 Inspiring Australians, she contributes to taxonomic committees such as the World Congress of Herpetology Taxonomic Subcommittee, Australian Society of Herpetologists Taxonomic Committee, and AmphibiaWeb Steering Committee.
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