2020 AOS William Brewster Memorial Award to John Rotenberry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Rotenberry The William Brewster Memorial Award recognizes the author or coauthors of an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere. Established in 1921, the award consists of the Brewster Memorial Medal and an honorarium. This award honors William Brewster, one of the founding members of the American Ornithologists’ Union. In 2020, AOS presents 2 separate William Brewster Awards, one to Regina Macedo and one to John Rotenberry. Dr. Rotenberry is a distinguished ecologist who has made many contributions to avian ecology during his career. He received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1978, completed a postdoc at the University of New Mexico, and was a faculty member at Bowling Green State University for 10 years and the University of California-Riverside for 23 years before moving to a new post at the University of Minnesota in 2012. Dr. Rotenberry was elected a Fellow of AOS in 2000 and served as editor for the Studies in Avian Biology book series for a decade, from 1994 to 2004. Dr. Rotenberry’s body of work includes a series of important papers on the community dynamics and habitat associations of shrub-steppe birds in the western United States. He has been particularly interested in questions of spatial scale and understanding how birds select and use habitats at a local vs. regional scale. His work on understanding niche requirements and competition led to studies of the ecological factors that affect species at the edge of their range distributions. His more recent work focuses on threats to shrub-steppe birds due to habitat loss and other ecological changes in sagebrush habitats. His research productivity includes over 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with highly cited articles in the top journals in ornithology and ecology, including The Condor: Ornithological Applications, The Auk: Ornithological Advances, American Naturalist, Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Evolution, Oecologia, and Oikos. Dr. Rotenberry served as the President of the Cooper Ornithological Society from 2005 to 2007. In recognition of meritorious bodies of research on birds over long and distinguished careers, AOS is deeply honored to award John Rotenberry a 2020 Brewster 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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.286 | 0.195 |
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".