Environmental effects of river ice, The Saint John (Wolastoq) River, New Brunswick, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Saint John (Wolastoq) River (SJR) is a major international river flowing through the State of Maine, USA, and the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. In terms of river length and basin area, it is one of the largest rivers on the eastern seaboard of North America south of the St. Lawrence River system. Subject to seasonal ice cover, ice conditions vary along the SJR due to natural differences in climate and terrain, and due to anthropogenetic changes, such as the construction of dams. Ice formation, growth, and breakup along the SJR affects its hydraulic and ecological regimes and leads to the potential for ice jamming that has caused severe flooding and ice runs. Ice affects river erosion, flooding, ecology, water quality, and recreational uses of the SJR. An overview of typical winter climate and ice season characteristics along the SJR from Dickey, Maine, USA to Saint John, New Brunswick, and some of its environmental consequences are summarized in this review paper. Ice processes and phenomena that occur along the SJR occur along other northern rivers, and can cause similar environmental concerns and consequences that should not be ignored in river engineering and basin management.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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".