Jodi Rowley

Jodi J. L. Rowley is an Australian herpetologist and conservationist.[1]

Jodi J. L. Rowley
NationalityAustralian
Alma materJames Cook University
Scientific career
FieldsHerpetology, Conservation biology
ThesisWhy does Chytridiomycosis drive some frog populations to extinction and not others?: the effects of interspecific variation in host behaviour (2006)
Doctoral advisorRoss Alford and Lin Schwarzkopf

Life and research

Rowley received her bachelor's degree in environmental science at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and her PhD from James Cook University. Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of amphibian decline caused by chytridiomycosis.[2] After finishing her PhD, in 2006 she moved to Cambodia to work for Conservation International as a wildlife biologist.[1][3] She returned to Australia in 2008, and began working at the Australian Museum.[1] In 2016, she was appointed curator of Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology at the Australian Museum.[2] Her current work concerns a mixture of taxonomy and conservation biology. One of her on-going projects is to search for the Peppered tree frog.[1] She has run numerous research expeditions in Australia and South-East Asia.[4]

Rowley is a member of the New-South Wales Threatened Species Scientific Committee, the IUCN Amphibian Red List Authority, and the Steering Committee of AmphibiaWeb. She is also chair of the Mainland Southeast Asia, IUCN Species Survival Commission Amphibian Specialist Group.[5]

Rowley was one of the co-founders of the FrogID app and is its chief scientist.[1] The app uses citizen science to gather data on the distribution and activity of Australian frogs, to inform both research and conservation.[6]

Rowley is an editor for Amphibia for Zootaxa.[5]

Matronyms

Rowley has had three species named in her honour, one Vietnamese snake, Cylindrophis jodiae, named in 2015[7]; and two Vietnamese frogs, Leptorachella rowleyae named in 2018[8], and Zhangixalus jodiae named in 2020.[9]

gollark: No, I mean software.
gollark: I found a python thing for it but I don't know if it can do training.
gollark: What are you using for GPTous purposes?
gollark: Hmm, do these peaks on my CPU usage graph correspond to epicbot markov utilization?
gollark: The performance is *wildly* worse on my server for no apparent reason.

References
  1. "Explorers Directory". www.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  2. "Profile: Dr. Jodi Rowley – Herpetologists' League". herpetologistsleague.org. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  3. "All Hail Our Amphibian Overlords and Ancestors – Jodi Rowley joins Real Scientists – Real Scientists". realscientists.org. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  4. "Jodi Rowley | School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences". www.bees.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  5. Rowley, Jodi. "Dr Jodi Rowley". The Australian Museum. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  6. "Don't foget to download FrogId". www.ntnews.com.au. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  7. Amarasinghe, A. A. Thasun; Campbell, Patrick D.; Hallermann, Jackob; Sidik, Irvan; Supriatna, Jatna; Ineich, Ivan. "Two new species of the genus Cylindrophis Wagler, 1828 (Squamata: Cylindrophiidae) from Southeast Asia" (PDF). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation. 9 (1): 34–51.
  8. Nguyen, Luan Thanh; Poyarkov, Nikolay A. Jr.; Le, Dzung Trung; Vo, Ba Dinh; Phan, Hoa Thi; Duong, Tang Van; Murphy, Robert W.; Nguyen, Sang Ngoc (28 February 2018). "A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from Son Tra Peninsula, central Vietnam". Zootaxa. 4388 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4388.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  9. Nguyen, Tao Thien; Ninh, Hoa Thi; Orlov, Nikolai; Nguyen, Truong Quang; Ziegler, Thomas (19 June 2020). "A new species of the genus Zhangixalus (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam". Journal of Natural History: 1–17. doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1754484. ISSN 0022-2933.
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