Field vehicle for research in physiological ecology

我在为一辆越野车寻求资金。我的研究重点是行为和生理生态学。我用蛇、乌龟和蜥蜴作为模型系统。自从2002年我被雇用以来，我的研究小组一直在参与安大略大部分地区的野生爬行动物实地研究：阿尔冈琴省立公园，圣劳伦斯群岛国家公园，长点省立公园，奥吉布韦草原省级保护区和女王大学生物站。野外车辆是我的研究计划中最昂贵和最重要的设备。我们使用车辆将人员和设备运送到我们的现场，并将动物带回实验室进行测量，标记或手术植入无线电发射机。我们以前的野外车辆（1994年福特探险者，超过220 000公里）已经达到其使用寿命，我们试图通过这一应用程序来取代它。我的研究小组通常由2名博士生，3名硕士生和3-4名理学士生组成。所有这些学生的项目都依赖于一辆野外车辆。如果没有野外车辆，这些学生的培训是不可能的。

I am seeking funding for a field vehicle. My research focus is in behavioural and physiological ecology. I use snakes, turtles, and lizards as model systems. Since I was hired in 2002, my research group has been involved in field studies on wild reptiles across much of Ontario: Algonquin Provincial Park, St. Lawrence Islands National Park, Long Point Provincial Park, Ojibway Prairie Provincial Reserve, and Queen's University Biological Station. Field vehicles are the most expensive and the most essential equipment to my research program. We use vehicles to carry people and equipment to our field sites as well as to bring back animals to the laboratory for measurement, marking, or the surgical implantation of radio-transmitters. Our previous field vehicle (a 1994 Ford Explorer with over 220 000 km) has reached the end of its useful life and we seek to replace it through this application. My research group is usually composed of 2 PhD students, 3 MSc students, and 3-4 BSc students in any given year. The projects of all these students rely on a field vehicle. Training of these students is impossible without access to a field vehicle.