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A statistical representation of oil spill fate in the Salish Sea (Part 2)

2025· article· en· W4412752161 on OpenAlexafffund
Rachael D. Mueller, Susan E. Allen, Stephanie E. Chang, Haibo Niu, Douglas J. Latornell, Shihan Li, R. W. Bagshaw, Ashutosh Bhudia, Vicky Do, Krista Forysinski, Ben Moore-Maley, Cameron Power

Bibliographic record

VenueMarine Pollution Bulletin · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicOil Spill Detection and Mitigation
Canadian institutionsDalhousie UniversityUniversity of British Columbia
FundersAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaMarine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network
KeywordsOil spillEnvironmental scienceRepresentation (politics)OceanographyGeologyEnvironmental protectionPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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We use a novel approach that combines Automatic Identification System (AIS) ship traffic data, state regulated oil transfer data, and a suite of numerical models to statistically represent the risk of spilled Alaska North Slope Crude, Bunker-C, and Marine Diesel under a variety of environmental conditions in an estuarine environment off the northeastern Pacific Ocean. We show the statistics of fate and transport outcomes based on 10,000 MOHID oil spill model simulations with currents, winds, and waves between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018. Each of the 10,000 oil spill scenarios was run individually and includes weathering from biodegradation, dissolution, dispersion, emulsification, evaporation, and spreading. Our pioneering approach captures statistical variability in seasonality, vessel traffic, spill locations, and oil types. We show that heterogeneity of 3D circulation in an estuarine environment, combined with marine traffic "footprints", creates regionally-variable signatures of the timing, likelihood and type of potential oiling.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.428
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.233 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
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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