Laura E. Coristine,^1,*,** Peter Soroye,^1,*** Rosana Nobre Soares,^1,**** Cassandra Robillard,^1,***** Jeremy T. Kerr<sup>1,******

1</sup>1Canadian Facility for Ecoinformatics Research Department of Biology University of Ottawa 30 Marie C

^*Corresponding author: laura@coristine. com; 613-562-5800 ext. 2594
^**Laura Coristine recently completed her PhD at the University of Ottawa. She is a current Liber Ero Fellow at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on conservation management strategies that reduce climate change impacts on Canada's biodiversity. She is currently working on conceptual advances that apply climate change research to landscape connectivity efforts, at macroecological scales. Her work involves multijurisdictional collaboration with conservation practitioners and decision-makers.
^***Peter Soroye is a master's student at the University of Ottawa. He is interested in science policy and in improving tools for researchers and practitioners to enable more effective biodiversity conservation. His work to date has focused on evaluating citizen science as a research tool, using eButterfly as a model system. His past endeavours include work examining indirect genetic effects in fungi and analyzing past climate and vegetation of the Ottawa area.
^****Rosana Nobre Soares is a master's student at the University of Ottawa. She is interested in biodiversity conservation and studying interacting effects of extinction drivers on broad-scale biodiversity patterns. Her current research focuses on the influence of local landscape factors on broad-scale distributional patterns of butterfly species. Her work emphasizes the importance of landscape-level adaptations to facilitate climate change induced range shifts across heavily human modified landscapes.
^*****Cassandra Robillard is an Environmental Professional In-Training (EPt) and an MSc graduate in Biology and Sustainability from the University of Ottawa. Her Master's research focused on the efficient prioritization of areas for habitat restoration and conservation at a national scale, particularly within farmland.
^******Jeremy Kerr is Professor of Biology and holds the University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation at the University of Ottawa. His pure and applied research program focuses on understanding how environmental changes affect species and ecosystems and on how to improve prospects for conservation. He focuses particularly on butterflies and bumblebees. Kerr's work has been featured in media around the world and in Parliamentary briefings and presentations in the United Kingdom and Canada. He is President-elect of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) and very active at the science-policy interface, contributing to development of national science and conservation policy and legislation in Canada. Kerr was elected to the Global Young Academy and is a member of the University of Ottawa's Institute for Science, Society, and Policy.