Truck for evolution and ecology field work

此应用程序请求资金支持购买四轮驱动野战卡车。两名申请者都有PDF、研究生、本科研究人员和现场助理，需要运送到大片地理区域的偏远野外地点。在冬天，要想进入现场，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，道路通过土路或石油/天然气道路进入，出于安全和保险原因，这些道路需要重型四轮驱动车。此外，我们需要一台绞车，因为研究人员必须能够将车辆从偏远地区的泥土或雪堆中解救出来。通过全年应用于各种项目，将最大限度地利用这一现场车辆。在春季和夏季，它将支持整个加拿大西部关于鳞翅目化学生态、分类学和系统发育的研究。在秋天，它将被用来研究秋天活跃的飞蛾的化学生态学。在冬季，它将被用来对艾伯塔省中部和北部越冬阶段的昆虫进行采样。

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.