Field vehicle for research in physiological ecology

我正在为一辆野战车辆寻求资金。我的研究重点是行为和生理生态学。我使用蛇、乌龟和蜥蜴作为模型系统。自从我在2002年受聘以来，我的研究小组一直在安大略省的大部分地区参与对野生爬行动物的实地研究：阿尔冈昆省级公园、圣劳伦斯群岛国家公园、朗点省级公园、奥吉布韦草原省级保护区和女王大学生物站。野战车辆是我的研究项目中最昂贵、最基本的设备。我们使用车辆将人员和设备运送到现场，并将动物带回实验室进行测量、标记或外科手术植入无线电发射器。我们以前的野战车辆(一辆超过220,000公里的1994年的福特探索者)已经到了使用寿命的尽头，我们希望通过这项申请来更换它。我的研究小组通常由2名博士生、3名硕士学生和3-4名理科学生组成。所有这些学生的项目都依赖于野战车辆。如果没有野战车辆，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.