2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award to David Ainley and to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf
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Abstract
David Ainley (left) Eric VanderWerf and (right) Lindsay Young The Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Award is an AOS senior professional award that honors extraordinary conservation-related scientific contributions by an individual or small team. The award is named for Ralph Schreiber, a prominent figure in American ornithology known for his enthusiasm, energy, and dedication to research and conservation, particularly of seabirds. This award consists of an original piece of avian art, framed certificate, and an honorarium. In 2022, AOS is presenting two separate Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Awards; one to David Ainley, and one to Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf. David Ainley is a Senior Ecologist with HT Harvey & Associates and Point Blue Conservation Science. Dr. Ainley is a prominent seabird biologist, having worked on marine ecosystems for more than 40 years. His research foci include the Farallon Islands’ ecosystem and marine ornithology in California, as well as his long-term studies of Adelie Penguin foraging and breeding biology in Antarctica. His work has uncovered the genetic impacts of calving icebergs on the population structure of penguin colonies and the competitive interaction of krill-foraging specialists in Antarctic waters, all aspects that are severely impacted by global change. In addition to his productive research career, Dr. Ainley has worked tirelessly to conserve marine organisms. He led the restoration of the Farallon Islands, removing tons of debris as well as feral animals, leading directly to the return of two species of breeding bird after a 100-year absence, and increasing the populations of others. Dr. Ainly also initiated efforts to designate the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area through numerous papers, presentations and film. In short, Dr. Ainley has been instrumental in advancing our knowledge of, and preservation of, marine birds and other organisms. The second Schreiber Conservation Award goes to Drs. Lindsay Young and Eric VanderWerf of Pacific Rim Conservation. Drs. Young and VanderWerf are being recognized for the sustained success of their conservation actions combined with their publication, individually and together, of a significant body of research on bird conservation and the biology of birds. Their long-term study of Hawaiian seabirds and land birds, combined with planning and execution of effective conservation actions, have helped to protect vulnerable breeding birds in Hawaiʻi. Conservation projects led by Pacific Rim Conservation encompass a range of techniques including acoustic survey and population monitoring, habitat restoration, chick fostering and translocation, social attraction, predator-proof fencing, and predator eradication. Their diverse conservation projects on multiple islands have reduced predation on, and improved habitat for, multiple species of breeding Hawaiian birds, and established new breeding colonies of several vulnerable seabird species. Drs. Young and VanderWerf are the authors of multiple scientific articles, book chapters and reports, and co-authors of the recent book, Conservation of Marine Birds (July 2022; Elsevier), on the factors influencing seabird conservation. The American Ornithological Society is honored to bestow the 2022 AOS Ralph W. Schreiber Conservation Awards to Dr. David Ainley and to Dr. Lindsay Young and Dr. Eric VanderWerf. Please check Wing Beat (https://americanornithology.org/blog/) for more detailed profiles of the two award winners.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.513 | 0.321 |
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".