2020 Elliott Coues Award to Thomas Smith
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Thomas Smith Thomas Smith The Elliott Coues Award recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research, regardless of the geographic location of the work. This award was established in honor of Elliott Coues, a pioneering ornithologist of the western United States and a founding member of the American Ornithologists’ Union. The award consists of the Elliott Coues Medal and an honorarium. In 2020, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) is presenting 2 individual Elliott Coues Awards, one to André Dhondt and one to Thomas Smith. Dr. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is currently a leader for several conservation initiatives for tropical biodiversity including the Center for Tropical Research, Conservation Action Research Network, and the Congo Basin Institute. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley under the direction of Frank Pitelka and has held faculty positions at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Davis before moving to his current position. He is a Fellow of the AOS and the California Academy of Science. Dr. Smith has worked in Africa and South America for over 35 yr, with a focus on understanding how diversity is generated and maintained in tropical rainforests. His dissertation addressed the remarkable bill polymorphism in the Black-bellied Seedcracker (Pyrenestes ostrinus), and he has continued to work on this species using genomic tools. Dr. Smith has had a special interest in understanding the role of ecotones and environmental gradients in speciation. He has been an innovator in using molecular tools, population genetics, and, more recently, genomics and remote sensing in the study of zoonotic diseases and migratory connectivity. His most-cited works includes articles and reviews on resource polymorphisms in vertebrates and studies of diversification in the tropics that appeared in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Dr. Smith has been heavily involved with the development of programs and infrastructure for tropical research and conservation, with leadership roles in several international initiatives. His long-term contributions to student training include serving as a mentor for 27 postdocs and 34 graduate students who are now working with birds around the world. In recognition of these contributions to ornithology, the AOS is pleased to name Thomas Smith as a recipient of a 2020 Elliott Coues Award.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.396 | 0.304 |
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".