Legal and Ethical Responsibilities of Geoscientists in Environmental Geology
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Professional geoscientists, including those practicing environmental geoscience, have definite and definable legal and ethical responsibilities. These obligations apply to environmental geoscientists working as consultants, academics, regulators or environmental managers. Environmental geoscientists are obliged to be aware of and obey all federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations applying to professional geoscientists. As well as the provincial engineering and geoscience acts, a variety of additional guidelines and professional standards apply to the professional geoscientist. These include criminal, labour, and business law as well as environmental acts and regulations. Governments, professional associations and private standards agencies, such as the Canadian Standards Association and the American Society for Testing and Materials, have also issued relevant guidelines and standards.SOMMAIRELes géoscientifiques professionnels, incluant ceux qui pratiquent en géosciences de l’environnement, ont des responsabilités légales et éthiques définies et définissables. Ces obligations s'appliquent aux géoscientifiques de l’environnement qu’ils travaillent comme experts-conseils, universitaires, ou pour des organismes de réglementation ou comme gestionnaires en environnement. Les géoscientifiques en environnement sont tenus de connaître et de respecter toutes les lois et règlements fédéraux, provinciaux et municipaux applicables aux géoscientifiques professionnels. En plus des lois provinciales régissant la pratique des ingénieurs et des géoscientifiques, les géoscientifiques doivent aussi se soumettre à une variété de lignes directrices et de normes supplémentaires touchant leur pratique. Ces dernières concernent notamment les champs du droit pénal, du droit du travail, le droit des affaires ainsi que les lois et règlements en environnement. Les gouvernements, les associations professionnelles et les organismes privés de normalisation, comme l'Association canadienne de normalisation et l'American Society for Testing and Materials, ont également édicté des lignes directrices et des normes pertinentes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.033 | 0.067 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.020 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".