Media
I’m a conservation biologist obsessed with frogs, with a passion for science communication.
I strive to help people fall in love with frogs.
To care and protect something, you need to first know it exists, and so I strive to reveal the beauty and importance of frogs, so that more people can fall in love with, care and protect them.
Show Reel. Wild Paficic Media.
Earthsounds, Apple TV. Featured in Episode 1, Australian Forests. Watch here.
Meet the Bush Blitz team discovering new species | Australia’s Wild Odyssey | ABC TV + iview. First aired 23 January 2023.
Australia’s Great Wild North – Online Trailer featuring Jodi Rowley. Wild Pacific Media. 2018.
Selected television
The Drew Barrymore Show (aired 2024)
Gardening Australia – My Garden Path – Dr Jodi Rowley. Series 30, Episode 07. First aired 15 March 2019.
ABC Landline – Finding Frogs: The project to find Australia’s frogs. First aired 28 February 2021.
Jodi Rowley talks to Nate Byrne about being awarded The Australian Museum Research Institute Medal, for her citizen science project FrogID. First aired 24 August 2023.
China Global Television Network. Australia Frogs Death Mystery: Amphibians are dying en masse for second consecutive winter. 22 August 2022.
The Project – Australian Tree Frogs On Eastern Seaboard Dying Of Mystery Illness. First aired 3 October 2021.
Other videos
Meet The Speakers: Jodi Rowley | TEDxYouth@Sydney 2016
AMP Tomorrow Maker 2017 – Jodi Rowley
The Race Against Frog Extinction | Jodi Rowley | TEDxYouth@Sydney. 2016.
In most frog species, males attract females with a rather repetitive call. Quang’s Tree Frog (Gracixalus quangi), on the other hand, has a ‘hyperextended vocal repertoire’. 2014.
Podcasts
Frog Talk with Jodi Rowley. Episode. 211, Amphibicast. 7 November 2025.
Episode 33: Obsessed with Amphibians: Jodi Rowley. So Much Pingle: A Herpetology Podcast. 14 February 2021.
The search for the turquoise-blooded frog. ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler. 9 May 2018.
Episode 151. Amphibian Extinction w/ Jodi Rowley. Talk Nerdy podcast, with Cara Santa Maria. March 2017.
Dr. Jodi Rowley – Discovering New Frogs! Escape the Zoo Podcast. 18 January 2019.
The strange case of the peppered tree frog. Off Track, ABC Radio National. 29 October 2016.
Selected radio
Changing Australia: Jodi Rowley and Anthony Waddle and saving Australia’s frogs. ABC Radio National Breakfast. 16 October 2025.
Citizen scientists lead to new frog species. ABC Radio National. 16 August 2025.
The mystery of the “mutant” tree frog. Self Improvement Wednesday, ABC Radio Sydney. 31 July 2024.
Two ‘whistling’ frogs new to science. Self Improvement Wednesday, ABC Radio Sydney. 13 March 2024.
The race to save Australia’s dirty frogs. The Science Show, ABC Radio National. 1 July 2023.
A love story: frogs vs Taylor Swift. Story Stream, ABC Science. 6 December 2022.
We all know frogs go ‘bonk’. ABC Radio National. Off Track with Ann Jones 22 November 2020.
Frogs, drought and fire. ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 19 February 2020.
Almost 100,000 frog calls submitted to Australian Museum’s FrogID App to track the amphibians. Afternoons with Paula Kruger. ABC Canberra. 31 January 2020.
Amphibian hullabaloo and other frog noises. ABC Radio National. Off Track with Ann Jones. 9 November 2019.
Finding frogs in the clouds. ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 23 October 2019.
Identify the frogs you hear with FrogID mobile app. The Science Show with Robyn Williams. ABC Radio National. 4 May 2019.
Rediscovered Frogs. ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 30 January 2019.
The hidden abundance of frogs. ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 12 September 2018.
How can you help put frogs on the map? ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 28 February 2018.
Saving frogs with smartphones. ABC Radio National. Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone. 11 December 2017.
Name that frog! ABC Radio Melbourne. Clare Bowditch on Afternoons. 15 November 2017.
Have you heard frogs croaking at night? ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 1 November 2017.
Frog Mating. ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 16 August 2017.
The search for the Peppered Tree Frog. ABC Radio Sydney. Drive with Richard Glover. 1 March 2017.
European and North American salamanders threatened by SE Asian chytrid fungus. Radio National, The Science Show, with Robyn Williams. 15 August 2015.
New frogs jumping out of SE Asian high forests. Radio National, The Science Show, with Robyn Williams. 3 May 2014.
Vietnam’s Parachuting Frog. ABC Radio National, The Science Show, with Robyn Williams. 13 April 2013.
South East Asian Amphibians barely known. ABC Radio National, The Science Show, with Robyn Williams. 29 January 2011.
Selected print media
The search for extinct frogs starts in your home with your phone. Sydney Morning Herald. 13 November 2022.
Thousands of frogs are dying in Australia. Scientists aren’t sure why. The Washington Post. 16 July 2022.
‘A complicated murder mystery’: What’s killing Sydney’s frogs? Sydney Morning Herald. 16 July 2022.
‘Like nothing in my lifetime’: researchers race to unravel the mystery of Australia’s dying frogs. The Guardian. 19 September 2021.
La Niña rain brings baby boom for critically endangered Booroolong frog. ABC. 27 February 2021.
Frog Eats Beetle. Beetle Crawls Through Guts to Escape. WIRED. 3 August 2020.
A quest to save frogs. Nature Magazine. 16 December 2019.
Meet Australia’s desert-dwelling frogs. Australian Geographic. 7 May 2018.
Australian Science Superheroes – Jodi Rowley. Australia’s Chief Scientist. February 2017.
See the New Species Discovered in This Ecologically Threatened Part of the World. TIME, 19 December, 2016.
The strange case of the peppered tree frog Off Track, ABC Radio National. 1 November, 2016.
Scientists discover new ‘rainbow’ Cape York graceful tree frog ABC. 5 October, 2016.
Thousands of Southeast Asian newts being collected from the wild for pet trade. mongabay.com. 26 May, 2016.
Zoologger: DJ frogs sing like birds, remixing tunes on the hop. New Scientist, 30 September, 2015.
‘Proud Father’ Chirps Over Tiny Frog. Wall Street Journal. 3 February 2010.
Authored/co-authored articles in The Conversation
You might think frogs never get enough water. Turns out, they can fare worse in floods than bushfires. The Conversation. 13 November 2025.
Citizen scientists can help save Australia’s threatened species if we give them more direction. The Conversation. 28 August 2024.
We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested. Did these cause mass deaths? The Conversation. 30 April 2024.
Our unsung farm dams provide vital habitat to threatened species of frogs. The Conversation. 14 September 2023.
How a lethal fungus is shrinking living space for our frogs. The Conversation. 29 August 2023.
Australian frogs are dying en masse again, and we need your help to find out why. The Conversation. 13 June 2022.
Dead, shrivelled frogs are unexpectedly turning up across eastern Australia. We need your help to find out why. The Conversation. 29 July 2021.
Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer. The Conversation. December 28, 2020.
Australians recorded frog calls on their smartphones after the bushfires – and the results are remarkable. The Conversation. September 28, 2020.
A few months ago, science gave this rare lizard a name – and it may already be headed for extinction. The Conversation. 13 July 2020.
Our field cameras melted in the bushfires. When we opened them, the results were startling. The Conversation. 9 July 2020.