Faculty of Science

The Painted Lady, also known as the Vanessa cardui butterfly, performs a migratory cycle that can reach 12,000 km in multiple generations —  a cycle longer than that of the monarch — making it the longest migration known for any butterfly species and similar to that of many birds. These new findings were made by Professor Clément Bataille, a geochemist at the University of Ottawa, along with Gerard Talavera, a colleague from Institut de Biologia Evolutiva. Read the complete article.

Research conducted by an international team of scientists, drawn from the University of Ottawa, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Birmingham, shows that the mass extinction of marine life that took place at the end of the Ordovician was triggered by marine anoxia, a drop in seawater oxygen levels that causes marine animals to asphyxiate. Read the complete article.

Chemistry professor Michael Organ was awarded the prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) John C. Polanyi Award, for discoveries that are changing chemical manufacturing processes. Read the complete article.