Truck for evolution and ecology field work

该申请要求资金支持购买一辆四轮驱动野战卡车。 这两个申请人都有PDF，研究生，本科生研究人员和现场助理，需要运输到偏远的现场在大的地理区域。 在冬季，进入现场需要在偏远的积雪覆盖的道路上行驶，这些道路不定期维护。 在春季和夏季，道路通行是通过泥土或石油/天然气道路，需要重型四轮驱动车辆的安全和保险原因。 此外，我们还需要一个绞车，因为研究人员必须能够将车辆从偏远地区的泥或雪中解放出来。 通过全年在各种项目中使用，将最大限度地利用这一外地工具。 在春季和夏季，它将支持整个加拿大西部对鳞翅目化学生态学、分类学和昆虫发生学的研究。 在秋天，它将被用来研究在秋天活跃的飞蛾的化学生态学。 在冬季，它将被用来在阿尔伯塔中部和北方对昆虫的越冬阶段进行采样。

This application requests funds to support the purchase of a 4WD field truck. Both applicants have PDFs, graduate students, undergraduate researchers and field assistnats that require transportation to remote field sites over large geographic areas. In the winter, access to sites requires driving on remote, snow covered roads that have irregular maintenance. In the spring and summer, road access is via dirt dogging or oil/gas roads that requires a heavy duty 4WD vehicle for safety and insurance reasons. In addition, we are requesting a winch because researchers must be able to free the vehicle from mud or snow banks in remote areas. The use of this field vehicle will be maximized by year round application to various projects. During the spring and summer it will support studies throughout western Canada on lepidopteran chemical ecology, taxonomy and phylogeny. In the fall it will be used to study the chemical ecology of moths that are active in the fall. In the winter it will be used to sample overwintering stages of insects in central and northern Alberta.