Communicating environmental geoscience: introduction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This collection of papers is aimed primarily at the environmental geoscientist faced with the challenges of communicating important scientific results to those who might benefit from them, whether they are politicians, policy-makers, potential victims of geological disasters, fellow scientists or other members of the public. Environmental geoscience has grown to become one of the most important disciplines of geoscience as a whole, and scientific methods of investigation have become sophisticated and effective at addressing numerous problems that directly affect health and safety. The audience for such research thus is wide, and for such research to be used in the most effective manner requires well-developed communication skills to reach an audience that varies greatly in education and ability to comprehend scientific concepts. The implications of failing to communicate effectively may be severe: geological disasters have had a massive economic and social impact, with major loss of life.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.021 |
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".