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Presentation: Voyage of the Turtle

2014· other· en· W7024078382 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueTexas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library) · 2014
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStaringCircumstantial evidenceRidiculousLimitingGloomEctotherm
DOInot available

Abstract

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With magnificent images from the oceans of three continents and evocative readings from Carl Safina's new book, Voyage of the Turtle is a global journey. Together, we pursue Earth’s last warm-blooded monster reptile, the skin-covered Leatherback Turtle. The Leatherback has seen dinosaurs come and go and is the closest thing we have to a last-living dinosaur. Imagine an 800-pound turtle and you’ve just envisioned merely an average female Leatherback; they can weigh over a ton.
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\nFrom tropical New Guinea jungle beaches to chilly waters off Newfoundland, we come face-to-face with animals, villagers, fishermen, and researchers living entwined lives. We let these co-existing creatures and people speak to us about how the oceans are changing and what it means for animals and us. We explore the importance of sea turtles to humans. We learn of ancient peoples who believed - and we meet some who still believe - that Earth was created by, and rests upon, a great turtle.
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\nAlong the way, we experience the vast oceanic realm that is the sea turtles’ theater of life; how sea turtles evolved and outlived the dinosaurs, how they grow, migrate thousands of miles from feeding to breeding areas. We learn how the Leatherback can warm its body and achieve diving depths approaching a mile while holding its breath.
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\nThroughout our travels, we explore a curious fact: that in the Pacific, sea turtles are careening toward extinction, while in the Atlantic sea turtle recovery is the mode. In the Pacific, the Leatherback – the majestic centerpiece of our narrative - has declined 95 percent during just the last two decades. By contrast, in the Atlantic the Leatherback is increasing, with some populations growing exponentially. We learn why, what is working and what is failing, and what can be done. The mighty Leatherback’s inspiring Atlantic comeback lets us envision its long-term survival.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.037

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.210 · 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