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Record W2132823299 · doi:10.1639/0007-2745-112.2.257

Wilfred Borden Schofield (1927–2008)

2009· article· en· W2132823299 on OpenAlex
J. Harpel

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Bryologist · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBryophyte Studies and Records
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeography

Abstract

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After a brief struggle with cancer, Dr. Wilfred (Wilf) Borden Schofield, 81, passed away peacefully on the morning of November 5, 2008, at Marion Hospice in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was preceded in death by his wife, Peggy, his parents and brothers, Donald and Eric. Wilf is survived by his daughters, Linda, Muriel and Pamela, his grandchildren, Aisha, Elise, Shayden and Kai, his sister, Vera, and brother-in-law, Turner, and nieces, nephews, cousins and many former students and colleagues. Wilf was born in Brooklyn Corner, Kings County, Nova Scotia on 19 July 1927 to Alethia May Borden and Gilbert Schofield. After high school he went on to Acadia University with the intention of becoming a high school teacher. His focus changed when John S. Erskine (the local bryologist) introduced him to botany and bryophytes. During his undergraduate years he collected both vascular plants and bryophytes while developing his passion for fieldwork. He graduated from Acadia University in 1950 with a B.A. and obtained a Class A Teacher’s License from Nova Scotia Normal College in 1951. For the next several years he taught high school geology in Nova Scotia. In 1954 he moved to Stanford University in California, and started graduate work under the guidance of William C. Steere. Not a person to choose an easy thesis topic he chose to work on the taxonomically difficult genus Hypnum. He focused on the species of Canada, Alaska and the northern latitudes. During the summer of 1955 Wilf joined Howard Crum as a field assistant and spent the summer collecting in the Canadian Rocky Mountain parks. He completed his thesis, The Relationships and Geographic Distribution of Canadian and Alaskan Species of Hypnum, and received his M.S. degree in 1956. During the summer of 1956 Wilf and Howard were joined by Lewis Anderson and Bill Steere and he collected both bryophytes and vascular plants in Fort Churchill, Manitoba. This trip resulted in one of his first published papers; ‘‘The salt marsh vegetation of Churchill, Manitoba, and its phytogeographic implications’’ which appeared in the Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada in 1959. While attending classes at Stanford, Wilf met Turner Bledsoe, a classmate who had a sister Margaret (Peggy) Irene Bledsoe. Peggy, an accomplished concert pianist and artist, completed her M.A. in music at Stanford. Mutual friends at Stanford introduced Wilf (the confirmed bachelor) to Peggy and they ‘‘hit it off.’’ They were married in the fall of 1956 after a one-month courtship. Howard Crum loved to tell how he went along on their honeymoon, which was a collecting trip. The young couple returned to Nova Scotia where Wilf spent the winter teaching high school. After he and Peggy spent the summer of 1957 doing fieldwork in the Yukon, they moved to Durham, North Carolina where Wilf started his Ph.D. under Henry J. Oosting at Duke University. While this was primarily an ecological study, his dissertation, The Ecotone between Spruce-fir and Deciduous Forest in the Great Smoky Mountains, included a strong bryophyte component. While at Duke he continued his love of bryology in the company of Lewis Anderson and various visiting bryologists. Many of those visiting bryologists, including Sinske Hattori, Hisa Ando, Zen Iwatsuki, Alan Mark and Helen Ramsay, became lifelong friends who hosted him and his family in their travels abroad. Upon completion of his dissertation in 1960, Wilf, with Peggy and their first daughter, Linda,

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.621
Threshold uncertainty score0.389

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it