Model development in support of the Lake Ontario Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative aims to generate data and information to support environmental management in the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America. On a rotating basis, efforts are focused on each lake every five years. In this study, we developed a state-of-the-art hydrodynamic and ecological modeling framework to aggregate data collected during these initiative years and from other sources, and to simulate lake eutrophication processes in Lake Ontario, with an emphasis on nearshore conditions. Model calibration and validation were based primarily on data from three initiative years (2008, 2013, and 2018). This integrated model provides a framework for data organization, understanding complex lake process interactions, and guiding future data collection. It is designed as a management support tool that can simulate lake responses to changes in loading conditions, such as sensitivity of nearshore water quality to Niagara River phosphorus loads. Its designated aim is to support evaluation of management questions in Lake Ontario by providing quantitative evaluation of the relative benefits of potential nutrient loading abatement strategies to mitigate eutrophication in the nearshore. This framework is also well suited for possible future expansion to address management issues on a whole-lake basis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".