There is a large project on declining frogs currently underway at James Cook University, conducted by Associate Professor Ross Alford and his current staff and students. This project is being funded by a collaborative research grant involving an international team and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and is entitled "Host-pathogen biology and the global decline of amphibians". It is being carried out in consultation with the North Queensland Frog Recovery Team and researchers from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.
Associate Professor Rick Speare from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is interested in the role of infectious disease and population crashes of several species of frogs in the wet tropics of North Queensland.
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