Inflatable boat for shallow water field sampling

温莎大学的一个主要研究重点是水生生物学，至少有11名研究人员以水生生物为研究模型，运营着资金充足和富有成效的研究实验室。有了这样一个充满活力的群体，用于这一领域的资源需要更新。虽然我们目前有用于研究的船只，但它们正在老化，需求持续不断，不能满足我们不断扩大的研究计划的所有需求。特别是，虽然我们有船可用于公开水域湖泊研究，但我们没有船可以安全地载着研究小组进入经常变化的气候条件下的浅水水域。我们正在申请资金，以购买一艘坚固的充气船，它可以穿越汹涌的水域，也可以在浅吃水条件下工作。购买这样一艘船将使我们的研究人员能够在各种环境中增强灵活性，并将为教师、学生和博士后研究人员提供更容易访问对其研究项目至关重要的基础设施的机会。

A major focus of research at the University of Windsor is aquatic biology, with at least 11 researchers running well funded and productive research laboratories using aquatic organisms as research models. With such a dynamic group, the resources devoted to this area need updating. While we currently have boats for research use, they are aging, in constant demand and do not meet all the needs of our expanding research programs. In particular, while we have boats available for open water lake research, we have no boats that can be safely used to carry research teams into shallower waters in often changing climatic conditions. We are requesting funds to purchase a rugged inflatable boat that can traverse rough waters and also operate in shallow-draft conditions. Purchase of such a vessel will allow enhanced flexibility in the range of environments over which our researchers can operate and will provide easier access for the faculty, student and post-doctoral researchers to infrastructure critical for their research projects.