Field vehicle for research in physiological ecology

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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.