It’s Canadian Environment Week, and here at the Office of Sustainable Development  we thought it was important to address the issue of biodiversity in the Ottawa area. Today, we are meeting Rosana, a uOttawa student who is currently doing her Master’s in biology. She explains to us why a great deal of her studies presently is ... chasing butterflies! Office of Campus Sustainability : What is your Master’s about ? Rosana : I’m looking at the response of butterflies to the interacting effect of climate change and habitat fragmentation. I want to see how the interaction of these two forces causes changes in butterfly species richness and distribution over time. I also want to predict the future, and determine extinction rates as a result of the combined effects of these two forces. OFC : How do you catch the butterflies you’re using for your research ? Rosana : We go to predetermined study sites around Ottawa. If we see a butterfly, we catch it with a net. We have a fiel...