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Record W37339145

Polish palaeontological research in the Arctic

2009· article· en· W37339145 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Edward Chwieduk

Bibliographic record

VenueAdam Mickiewicz University Repository (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeological Formations and Processes Exploration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArchipelagoArcticThe arcticGeographyOceanographyGeologyArchaeologyPhysical geographyPaleontology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Arctic is a vast area comprising the northernmost continental regions of the Earth: Nova Zemlya, Svalbard, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Because of their relatively easy accessibility, they are among the most frequently visited places of this region, with the Svalbard Archipelago being the most intensively used for scienti fi c purposes and the best-studied one among them. Poland belongs to the most active states conducting research in this area. The history of our studies there goes back to 1932, when three Poles, Czeslaw Cent-kiewicz, Stanislaw Siedlecki and Wladyslaw Łysakowski, organised the fi rst Polish expe-dition to the North, combined with wintering on Bear Island (Bjornoya). By 1939, three more expeditions had been made. The war and the next decade have been the only longer break in our exploration history of this region, but from then on large expeditions to polar areas have been organised on an almost yearly basis.The post-war scientifi c activity of Polish re-searchers on Spitsbergen (the largest island of Svalbard) started in the years 1957–1958 with an expedition organised by the International Geophysical Year Commission; 130 partici-pants represented 23 scientifi c disciplines. It was then that K. Birkenmajer rendered serv-ices for palaeontology by collecting his fi rst specimens, among others of corals (handed over to J. Fedorowski for systematisation) and lampshells (brachiopods), which S. Czarniecki offered to systematise. In the course of the next expeditions, lasting until 1962, meteorologi-cal, geodetic-astronomical and geomagnetic measurements were augmented with basic palaeontological studies. The effect of these ex-peditions was impressive, since they resulted in about 400 publications, including the fi rst Polish work on fossil Arctic organisms. They were lampshells, which were used to establish a stratigraphy for the marine Carboniferous and Permian deposits in Hornsund (Birkenma-jer & Czarniecki, 1960), later partly questioned (Birkenmajer, 1964; Fedorowski, 1965; Water-house, 1970). Intensive studies on Spitsbergen were launched in the late 1950s and they were con-tinued until the 1960s and 1970s; they yielded the largest proportion of palaeontological works. The knowledge of most of the fossil fau-na of the Arctic was largely due to the collect-ing passion of the participants of expeditions organised to the Hornsund area (Fig. 1) in the years 1958–1962. K. Birkenmajer then gathered mainly corals from Treskelen, and S.K. Czarni-ecki collected lampshells and bryozoans from the Kapp Starostin Formation as well as corals

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.036
Threshold uncertainty score0.071

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.008
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.196 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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