Resolution of Respect:Diana Harrison Wall (1943–2024)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Diana Harrison Wall (Diana W. Freckman), leader of the field of soil biodiversity and former President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), died on 25 March 2024, at the age of 80 in Fort Collins, CO (Photo 1).Over her extraordinary career, Dr. Wall was a pioneer in the field of soil ecology, revealing the role of nematodes and other soil organisms in ecosystems to global processes.Spanning more than 50 years, her research addressed questions about soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, soil carbon storage and climate change, global soil biodiversity and health, and sustainability.Her contributions to the understanding of soil biodiversity and ecology have been critical to understanding how ecosystems work at local to global scales, how they respond to global changes, and how they benefit people.Diana dedicated herself not only to science but to the goals of equity and diversity in science and public Resolution of Respect 2 Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 106(1) Article e02181awareness of science.Moreover, she provided superb leadership and passion in several professional scientific organizations, and kindness and essential mentoring to many who knew and worked with her, including students and early career scientists.Diana was born on 27 December 1943 in Durham, NC, and was raised in Lexington, KY.She earned a BA in biology in 1965, and a Ph.D. in plant pathology in 1971 from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, working with Professor R.A. Chapman to investigate nematodes that fed on the roots of red clover.With her nascent interest in nematodes, she took a postdoctoral position at the University of California Riverside, initially studying nematode communities in desert soils.In 1993, she moved to Fort Collins, CO, where she became associate dean for research and the director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) in the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU).She was the founding director of CSU's School of Global Environmental Sustainability in 2008 and served in that position until her death.In this role Diana innovated and shared a vision of how universities could engage in sustainability, including through building collaborations and understanding across disciplines, encouraging transdisciplinary collaborations between scientists and decision makers, continuing commitment to excellence and rigor, strengthening communication and leadership training and capacities, and encouraging many ways of engaging the public.She especially loved one of her local outreach efforts; "Managing the Planet," a monthly panel series at a pub near CSU that still brings community members together with faculty and students for talks about sustainability.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.033 | 0.016 |
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".