Six Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers have been awarded a total of $912,500 through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants Program to do more field and lab work. The research projects range from improving the autonomy of quadruped robots using visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping, to studying forest-grassland ecotones and developing methods to address machine-learning. The funding will enable the researchers to provide financial support and valuable field and research training to undergraduate and graduate students at TRU.