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Record W4408823322 · doi:10.5194/oos2025-1400

Ocean sustainability in the context of global change: Lessons learned from a large-scale ocean research project

2025· preprint· en· W4408823322 on OpenAlexaff
Derek Armitage, Nina Bednaršek, Dongyan Liu, Rowan Trebilco, Gi Hoon Hong

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicCoastal and Marine Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSustainabilityScale (ratio)Context (archaeology)Environmental resource managementGlobal changeOcean scienceClimate changeEnvironmental scienceOceanographyEnvironmental planningGeographyGeologyCartographyEcology

Abstract

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The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) has catalyzed a renewed focus on the importance of transformative science in support of sustainable solutions to pressing climate and biodiversity challenges. How that transformative science can be best fostered requires further clarity, along with examples of insights from basic research and its application for transformative change. This synthesis paper outlines the key empirical contributions and the procedural, organizational and technical lessons learned from a 10-year, large-scale global ocean research project aimed at fostering integrated marine research and the development of ocean sustainability options within and across the natural and social sciences. The specific objective the Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR) project is to understand, quantify and compare historic and present structure and functioning of linked ocean and human systems. Outcomes of this global research effort include: 1) better understanding and quantification of the state and variability of marine ecosystems; 2) improved scenarios, predictions and projections of future ocean-human systems at multiple scales; and 3) enhanced understanding of enabling conditions for sustainable ocean governance in the context of rapid change. Outcomes of this synthesise can inform other basic natural and interdisciplinary large-scale ocean research efforts, and further contribute to ongoing global efforts to foster transformative science that links people and oceans.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.097

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0060.007
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.104
GPT teacher head0.388
Teacher spread0.284 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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