Dr. Jodie Rummer’s background is in marine biology and comparative physiology. She is currently a Professor of Marine Biology at James Cook University and Research Associate at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. But, prior to joining JCU, Jodie’s academic training started in the U.S. (BSc and MSc degrees from the University of West Florida), took her to Canada (PhD from the University of British Columbia), and then to Hong Kong for a short post-doctoral fellowship. Dr. Rummer joined JCU in 2011 as an ARC Super Science Fellow (2011-2014), continued on as an ARC Early Career Discovery Fellow (2015-2017), and was promoted to full Professor on 1 July 2022. Internationally, Dr. Rummer is also on the editorial board for three scientific journals and, in 2020, was invited to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee (IOC) advisory panel on global deoxygenation (Global Oxygen Network, GO2NE), which is part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program.

Professor Rummer has accolades for her research as well as her capacity to communicate and connect her findings to broad and diverse audiences. She received the highly prestigious UNESCO-L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship for Australia and New Zealandand the Society for Experimental Biology’s President’s Medal, was named one of Australia’s top 5 scientists under the age of 40 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Radio National (RN), presented a TEDx talk (“Athletes of the Great Barrier Reef”), was named one of the Women in Science Ambassadors for the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, & Science, and was awarded Queensland’s Tall Poppy outstanding early career researcher, scientist of the year in 2019.  

Jodie gave the President’s lecture at the New England Aquarium in Boston and was an invited speaker at the Gills Club Symposium “Shark Tales: Women Making Waves” and educational outreach day in 2017. Jodie gave a Planet Talk at WOMADelaide in 2019, which was attended by over 100,000 people, regarding the harmful effects of oil drilling and pollution on marine life, which was featured in short documentary called Wild Waters and covered by the Adelaide Review, the ABC, andSustainable Home Hub. Jodie also spoke at the World Science Festival in Brisbane in 2019 on “Saving what we’ve got: Australia’s wildlife under threat” and “Let’s talk: Sharks”, both sold out events reaching in person and online audiences exceeding 100,000. Dr Rummer spoke at the 2021 Global Biodiversity Festival, is currently a spokesperson for the Climate Media Centre,and also works closely with Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Reef Census.

Jodie and her team, through the work of Tom Vierus, produced an 8-minute documentary covering their ongoing (since 2013) shark research in French Polynesia, which debuted at the New York City Wildlife Conservation Film Festival and four other Film Festivals so far (with >25,000 reached on social media) as well as two short videos (check them out here and here). Jodie has also discussed her team’s shark research on National Geographic Wild, Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin, and on Discovery Canada and Shark Week (see Twitter and Facebook for short clips).

Over the course of her career, Dr. Rummer has researched fish buoyancy, exercise, and is a leading authority on the evolution of oxygen transport and how fish maintain performance during stress. Today, Jodie’s team combines physiology, ecology, and evolution to address issues important to conservation, such as the effects of climate change and other anthropogenic problems on coral reef fishes, sharks, and rays and the potential for adaptation. Jodie has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 13 book chapters as well as dozens of editorials, and she has presented her work at more than 100 professional conferences and public events worldwide.

You can find out about Dr. Rummer’s research and her lab at www.jodierummer.com and www.physioshark.org, on Instagram (@RummerLab and @physioshark), Facebook (Physioshark Project), and on Twitter (@physiologyfish) where she communicates scientific findings, highlights fellow scientists’ success stories and achievements, and advocates for issues related to women in science, gender equity, and diversity in STEM. 

Teaching

• AQ3007: Aquatic Animal Ecophysiology (Level 3; TSV)
• BS2460: Fundamentals of Ecology (Level 2; TSV)
• MB1110: Introductory Marine Science (Level 1; TSV)
• MB2080: Invertebrate Biology (Level 2; TSV)
• MB3050: Biological Oceanography (Level 3; TSV)
• MB3200: Marine Conservation Biology (Level 3; TSV)
• MB5055: Biological Oceanography (Level 5; TSV)
• MB5350: Evidence and Controversy in Marine Science (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Ecological, Evolutionary, and Conservation Physiology in Fish • The physiology, performance indicators of stress, and acclimation strategies of fish • Environmental adaptations related to O2, CO2 exchange, acid-base balance, and ion regulation • Evolution of life history tactics, distribution patterns, and biogeography
• Hyperbaric, thermal, O2, CO2, pH, water balance, & ionregulation performance assays • Blood sampling, surgical techniques, O2 & pH micro-sensing fiber-optic technology • Evolutionary reconstructions of physiological traits and phylogenetic comparisons

Experience

• 2015 to present - Academic Editor, Conservation Physiology
• 2014 to present - Senior Research Fellow (Assistant Professor, Research), ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studie (James Cook University, AUSTRALIA)
• 2014 to present - Academic Editor, PLoS One
• 2015 to 2017 - ARC Discovery Fellow (DECRA), ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef StudiesARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (James Cook University, AUSTRALIA)
• 2011 to 2014 - ARC Super Science Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef StudiesARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (James Cook University, AUSTRALIA)
• 2010 to 2011 - Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biology and Chemistry (City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, HONG KONG)
• 2008 to 2010 - Editorial Commentary Journalist, Journal of Experimental Biology
• 2007 to 2010 - Aquatic Facilities Curator, Department of Zoology (University of British Columbia)
• 2004 to 2010 - PhD candidate, Department of Zoology (University of British Columbia)
• 2004 to 2006 - Research Assistant, AquaNet (Canada Network Centre of Excellence in Aquaculture, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA)
• 2003 to 2006 - Teaching Assistant, Department of Zoology (University of British Columbia)
• 2002 to 2003 - Research & Volunteer Coordinator, Operation Wallacea

Research Disciplines

• Ecology (3103)
• Zoology (3109)
• Climate change impacts and adaptation (4101)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Marine systems and management (1805)
• Coastal and estuarine systems and management (1802)

Awards

• 2019 - Queensland's Tall Poppy Young Scientist of the Year
• 2016 to 2017 - Australia’s Top 5 Scientists under 40, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and University of New South Wales
• 2016 - Catch a Rising Star, for Women in Science Queensland National Science Week
• 2016 - Society for Experimental Biology President’s Medal – Communication and Diversity in Science
• 2015 - Rising Star in Queensland Science (Queensland Government)
• 2015 - George A. Bartholomew distinguished young investigator in comparative physiology, biochemistry, and functional and integrative biology, USA
• 2008 - • Society for Experimental Biology Young Scientist of the Year, 2nd runner up

Fellowships

• 2015 to 2017 - Australian Research Council Discovery Fellowship (early career, DECRA), for research “Physiological performance of reef fishes under ocean acidification”.
• 2015 to 2016 - Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation Fellow, AUSTRALIA
• 2015 to 2016 - L’Oréal – UNESCO for Women in Science – AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND, winner
• 2014 to 2015 - Institut des Récifs Coralliens du Pacifique / Institute for Pacific Coral Reefs Research Fellow, Moorea, FRENCH POLYNESIA
• 2011 to 2014 - ARC Super Science Fellowship

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Journal Articles

• Bouyoucos I, Simpfendorfer C, Planes S, Schwieterman G, Weideli O and Rummer J (2022) Thermally insensitive physiological performance allows neonatal sharks to use coastal habitats as nursery areas. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 682. pp. 137-152
• Ferreira P, Kwan G, Haldorson S, Rummer J, Tashiro F, Castro L, Tresguerres M and Wilson J (2022) A multi-tasking stomach: functional coexistence of acid-peptic digestion and defensive body inflation in three distantly related vertebrate lineages. Biology Letters, 18 (2).
• Kang J, Nagelkerken I, Rummer J, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Munday P, Ravasi T and Schunter C (2022) Rapid evolution fuels transcriptional plasticity to ocean acidification. Global Change Biology, 28 (9). pp. 3007-3022
• Porter M, Hernandez A, Gervais C and Rummer J (2022) Aquatic Walking and Swimming Kinematics of Neonate and Juvenile Epaulette Sharks. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62 (6).
• Shu J, Heuer R, Hannan K, Stieglitz J, Benetti D, Rummer J, Grosell M and Brauner C (2022) Enhanced oxygen unloading in two marine percomorph teleosts. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 264.
• Trujillo J, Bouyoucos I, Rayment W, Domenici P, Planes S, Rummer J and Allan B (2022) Escape response kinematics in two species of tropical shark: short escape latencies and high turning performance. Journal of Experimental Biology, 225 (22).
• Wheeler C, Lang B, Mandelman J and Rummer J (2022) The upper thermal limit of epaulette sharks (Hemiscyllium ocellatum) is conserved across three life history stages, sex and body size. Conservation Physiology, 10 (1).
• Wheeler C, Kneebone J, Heinrich D, Strugnell J, Mandelman J and Rummer J (2022) Diel Rhythm and Thermal Independence of Metabolic Rate in a Benthic Shark. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 37 (5). pp. 484-497
• BOUYOUCOS I, Trujillo J, Weideli O, Nakamura N, Mourier J, Planes S, Simpfendorfer C and Rummer J (2021) Investigating links between thermal tolerance and oxygen supply capacity in shark neonates from a hyperoxic tropical environment. Science of the Total Environment, 782.
• Downie A, Phelps C, Jones R, Rummer J, Chivers D, Ferrari M and McCormick M (2021) Exposure to degraded coral habitat depresses oxygen uptake rate during exercise of a juvenile reef fish. Coral Reefs, 40 (4). pp. 1361-1367
• Downie A, Leis J, Cowman P, McCormick M and Rummer J (2021) The influence of habitat association on swimming performance in marine teleost fish larvae. Fish and Fisheries, 22 (6). pp. 1187-1212

Book Chapters

• Rummer J and Illing B (2022) Chapter 7 - Coral reef fishes in a multi-stressor world. In: Fish Physiology. Elsevier, Cambridge, United States, pp. 325-391

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 137+ research outputs authored by Prof Jodie Rummer from 2001 onwards.

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Current

• Impacts of ocean deoxygenation on elasmobranchs (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Sharks and rays in time: the importance of temporal scales in the approaches used to investigate species (Masters , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Metabolic and locomotive performance strategies in the epaulette shark in response to ocean warming that may underpin acclimatisation and adaptation mechanisms (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Completed

• Ecological energetics of climate change for tropical sharks (2020, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Relationships between behavioral and physiological performance under elevated CO₂ in marine fishes (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The effects of suspended sediments on the physiology and performance of coral reef fishes (2019, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Gills develop early in coral reef fishes: respiratory and ionoregulatory processes (2019, Masters , Primary Advisor)
• The effect of motorboat noise on early life stages of coral reef fishes (2018, Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Effects of diel pCO₂ fluctuations on coral reef fishes now and into the future (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Quantifying life history energetics of an oviparous elasmobranch subject to future warming water (2023, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• How do coral reef fishes develop into athletes? (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Wheeler, C. (2020) Future thermal regimes for epaulette sharks (Hemiscyllium ocellatum): growth and metabolic performance cease to be optimal. James Cook University
• BOUYOUCOS, I. (2020) Haematological associations in reef shark neonates . James Cook University
• BOUYOUCOS, I. (2020) Drivers of reef shark neonate abundance in French Polynesia. James Cook University
• Hannan, K. (2020) Effects of fluctuating and constant pCO2 on the exercise physiology of four species of coral reef fishes. James Cook University
• Hannan, K. (2020) The effects of constant and fluctuating pCO2 on damselfishes. James Cook University
• BOUYOUCOS, I. (2020) Temperature effects on the abundance, growth, and metabolic rate of reef shark neonates. James Cook University
• Prescott, L. (2020) Rapid gill development in coral reef fishes supports the 'ionoregulatory first' hypothesis. James Cook University
• BOUYOUCOS, I. (2020) Responses of a reef shark to simulated ocean warming conditions. James Cook University
• BOUYOUCOS, I. (2019) Evaluation of the physiological status of neonatal reef sharks under stress. James Cook University
• Spady, B. (2018) Aerobic performance of two tropical cephalopod species unaltered by prolonged exposure to projected future carbon dioxide levels. James Cook University

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