Ocean literacy – communicating science in an ocean province
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Abstract
Ocean literacy -communicating science in an ocean provinceNova Scotia, an ocean province, is a regional hotbed for ocean science and technology in Atlantic Canada.Given this fact and the various issues affecting the seas locally and globally, especially climate change, it behoves us to have an ocean-literate population and to promote ocean literacy (herein called OL), in Nova Scotia and throughout the Atlantic Provinces.Indeed, OL is a major focal point of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 (UNESCO 2021).Therefore, the steps that we take to advance and promote OL in Nova Scotia will be an important contribution to this global initiative.Within the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS) and by the interested public, the first question to be asked is: What is OL and why is it so important?What initiatives are occurring in the region and in Canada?Where and how can OL best be promoted, and what could NSIS's role be?The term OL refers to "the understanding of the ocean's influence on us and our influence on the ocean" (UNESCO 2021), or more simply put, "understanding the ocean and our relationship to it" (CaNOE 2021).OL addresses the need for public understanding of the ocean's role in our lives and collective future.A more ocean-literate population could contribute to understanding and resolving major current issues such as climate change, loss of marine biodiversity, the location of protected areas, the condition of fisheries, the health of both people and ecosystems, and the sustainability of local and global economies.Clearly, ocean literacy and climate literacy are inextricably linked; efforts on both should be mutually supportive.To achieve this in Nova Scotia, there is a need for more critical understanding of these issues, more public education, and active engagement of people in hands-on ocean projects.To have a continued impact, OL also should be promoted within school systems as an integral part of the curricula from K-12, as well as directly within coastal communities.Over the past few years, there have been numerous initiatives on OL in Canada, notably under the aegis of such national organisations
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.136 | 0.023 |
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".