IODP Education and Outreach: An Enduring Legacy from Two Decades of IODP programming and opportunities in the U.S. and beyond
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Abstract
Since 2004, the U.S. office of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) has utilized the JOIDES Resolution (JR) and its related facilities and scientists to reach out to educators and the general public in efforts to raise awareness and knowledge about the interdisciplinary fields of the program, including climate and ecosystem evolution, palaeoceanography, the deep biosphere, sustainable georesources, deep crustal and tectonic processes, geodynamics and geohazards. Over these past few decades, IODP has strived to not just push the bounds of scientific knowledge, but also make these findings accessible to the public. Towards these goals, the program has hosted the School of Rock (SOR) professional development program – focusing on the training and education of educators – as well as Onboard Outreach Officers (professional education and outreach personnel embedded into expedition science parties). Together, these two programs have generated a vast library of resources – developed through partnerships with shipboard educators and scientists – available to educators worldwide. Topics addressed range from seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, to microbiology and climate change. The materials are easy to filter (e.g. by grade level) to meet the needs of learners in varied settings.The JR’s Onboard Outreach (OOO) program has also served as a pivotal bridge between the scientific endeavors of the JOIDES Resolution and the public. This program evolved significantly over the past 15 years, leveraging both advancements in technology and changing needs and attitudes towards public outreach. Through the efforts of Outreach Officers, the importance of deep sea ocean drilling has been disseminated to the general public on a global scale.School of Rock has also served as a fruitful generative vehicle for new ideas, including a community-driven, travelling informal exhibit program, and mechanisms for developing long-lasting relationships between K12 educators and university faculty. Beyond its legacy of a significant body of educational resources, SOR has also impacted how professional development is done by serving as a template for teacher/researcher collaboration and exchange of knowledge — spawning and inspiring new programs such as STEMSEAS and JR Academy (for undergraduate students). In this presentation, we will share highlights of this legacy, plans for the future of scientific ocean drilling education and outreach in a post-JR world, and new efforts to shape the next generation of geoscientists.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.027 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.004 |
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".