Bibliographic record
Abstract
Diane Frances Malley died peacefully on November 12, 2023, at the Nanaimo Seniors Village, surrounded and supported by family. Born June 14, 1943, in Ottawa, Ontario, to Marcia and John Malley, she is survived by her husband, Phil Williams; three daughters, Karin, Cedar (Lisa), and Laura Mathias; three grandchildren, Griffin, Aya, and Sage; and many loving friends and family.Diane moved to Vancouver, BC, in her primary school years. As an ambitious and independent young woman she joined UBC with the support of her family to study zoology and met her first husband and father of her three children, Jack Mathias. After completing her MSc at UBC, Diane obtained a Canadian scholarship to complete her PhD at the University of Michigan. Then in 1972, she and her husband celebrated the birth of their first daughter, Karin, and when she was 6 months old they travelled to Malaysia to teach at the University of Science in Penang supported by the Ford Foundation.Later Diane worked at the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans Freshwater Institute from 1975 to 1997. She became involved in the research at the famous Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a unique natural laboratory in Ontario. Her early work involved exploring the impact of acid rain on freshwater zooplankton. Cedar and Laura were born during this time. She brought her family to ELA whenever she could, and her daughters have many transformative memories of being in nature, helping in the lab and being involved in research projects.In 1997, Diane left the Freshwater Institute to start PDK Projects Inc. with her second husband, Phil Williams, consulting on projects of environmental pollution using Near Infrared (NIR) technology. Diane pioneered the use of NIR Spectroscopy at ELA to measure carbon, phosphorous, and heavy metals in lake water and sediments, as well as carbon sequestration in peat bogs. They moved to Nanaimo, BC, in 2003 and continued this work together.Diane was always involved in advocacy work. As a strong feminist and environmentalist, she was on many committees for women's labour rights, environmental sustainability, and community health. She was a true scientist, always open minded and exploring the world with curiosity. She carried herself with a quiet, feminine strength. Ever the gracious host, she enjoyed having parties and had a beautiful way of making people feel welcome and bringing people together. She passed on her countercultural spirit to her daughters, as well as her complete faith that her daughters could do anything they put their minds to. She always championed their learning, growth, and development.For the last 8 years of her life, Diane lived with progressive dementia, and the last two years were spent at the Nanaimo Seniors Village in Nanaimo, BC. As her memories left her, what shone through was her unconditional love, gentle kindness, and wonderful sense of humour. She was always supportive, kind, non-judgemental, and curious. She will be greatly missed.Article submitted to The University of British Columbia Magazine, alumni UBC, by Diane's daughters Karin Mathias, Cedar Mathias, Laura Mathias.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.268 | 0.149 |
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".