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missdianeGood grief. I got this request this morning which I just turned down:
Morgan and I have developed a protocol for collecting road killed dead deer for our McStennis project. However, because we have nowhere to store them at Rutgers (need a walk-in freezer) it is very inefficient for us at the moment because we need to drive around to carcasses the day of our scheduled deployment. Walk-in freezers are somewhere between $4000-$10,000. Is this something we could ask for from you? We would need a dedicated one to put in PSARF because I doubt anyone would want us dragging dead deer through their labs.
Seriously? You didn't think of this BEFORE proposing your project. Um, that would be a no. I cited multiple reasons:
Morgan and I have developed a protocol for collecting road killed dead deer for our McStennis project. However, because we have nowhere to store them at Rutgers (need a walk-in freezer) it is very inefficient for us at the moment because we need to drive around to carcasses the day of our scheduled deployment. Walk-in freezers are somewhere between $4000-$10,000. Is this something we could ask for from you? We would need a dedicated one to put in PSARF because I doubt anyone would want us dragging dead deer through their labs.
Seriously? You didn't think of this BEFORE proposing your project. Um, that would be a no. I cited multiple reasons:
- Our funding doesn't allow anything designated as "Facilities and administration" costs and a massive walk-in freezer installed in a designated FACILITIES building is kinda gonna raise red flags with our federal funder
- With installation, it would undoubtedly go over $10K even if Bosslady wanted to ok it and anything of that size needs to be proposed to the feds for their blessing
- This massive non-scientific purchase would only be used for less than two years and then what happens with it?