Wi-Fi enabled CTDs in citizen science
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Monitoring the vast expanse of oceans presents a daunting challenge: how to take sufficient high-quality measurements with a relatively small group of specialized scientists and limited resources. Despite advances in remote sensing and autonomous technology, the oceans remain under-explored and under-sampled. One solution for addressing this challenge is to rely on citizen scientists, people outside of the scientific community, to collect oceanographic data. This paper describes how through three unique successful citizen science programs, oceanographers have increased temporal and spatial coverage of high-quality CTD profiles using a Wi-Fi enabled CTD and an easy to use mobile device app. The three programs include the Shelf Research Fleet: a group of fishermen partnered with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Pacific Salmon Foundation: a partnership between the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Ocean Networks Canada, and the Coastal Community Ocean Observers program: a network of citizen scientists distributed along remote Alaskan coasts.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
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".