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Record W4246702823 · doi:10.11647/obp.0193.23

Oceans 2020

2020· book-chapter· en· W4246702823 on OpenAlex
David M. Karl

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicArctic and Russian Policy Studies
Canadian institutionsAlberta Oil Sands Technology and Research AuthorityUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOceanographyMarine ecosystemGeographyCoral reefEnvironmental scienceEcosystemGeologyEcologyBiology

Abstract

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This chapter charts the rise of oceanography as a discipline, from the first European-led age of discovery in the fifteenth century, to the scientific expeditions typified by HMS Challenger’s four-year voyage of 1872. Progress continued into the twentieth century with the increase of laboratories, research vessels and funding programs, such as the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). Regional sites in key locations – including Hawaii, Bermuda and Ocean Station Papa in the Gulf of Alaska – have been complemented by satellite imagery of ocean statistics and marine life, starting with the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), launched on the Nimbus-7 satellite, in 1978. As our ability to measure and analyze has increased, we are gaining a greater appreciation of the highly complex, interconnected nature of our oceans and the damage we are causing them. Rising sea levels have a profound effect on marine ecosystems, dramatically altering the physiology of organisms (e.g., coral reefs) that are unable to migrate or evolve to adapt to the changes. Such organisms face extinction. Meanwhile, loss of sea ice is altering pathways of ocean circulation, in addition to habitat loss. The sinking waters of subpolar Greenland are significant in the formation of the warm Gulf Stream Current; further disruption to this could alter Europe’s climate irrevocably. Increases in atmospheric CO2 levels are also affecting ocean acidity and salinity. This especially impacts the thousands of species that have evolved with calcified structures, and has potential ramifications for the physiology of all marine inhabitants. The chapter ends on a reflection that, whilst a change in plastic production and consumption may be a relatively easy change to make, there are increasingly significant threats to marine ecosystems. Not least of these is deep sea mineral exploration, to which microorganisms, which have survived for billions of years, may adapt, but we most certainly will not if the current changes continue unabated.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.343
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.002

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 head0.310
Teacher spread0.265 · 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