Report of the ICES Working Group on Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO). 18-20 March 2015 Bergen, Norway
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 2015 meeting of the ICES Working Group on Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO) was held in Bergen, Norway on18–20 March with Anders Jelmert as host and Henn Ojaveer as chair. Fourteen countries participated in the meeting. At-tendants were from Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithua-nia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Greece, Ireland, Spain and Denmark contributed by correspondence. The meeting was also at-tended by the JRC representative. It was the 41th meeting of this expert group.\nThe objectives of the meeting were to update information and discuss several aspects re-lated to the introductions and transfers of non-indigenous species. Data and information management was a key component of the meeting with a special focus on the applica-tionof the ‘Information system on aquatic non-indigenous and cryptogenic species’ (AquaNIS) to support WGITMO mandate. These included issues such as: i) fouling of artificial structures by non-indigenous species, ii) how to better address emerging ICES strategic topics (climate impacts, Arctic research) and iii) internal cooperation in ICES (WGBOSV, WGAQUA, WGIMT). The group also dedicated time for addressing the MSFD D2 issues and discussed these in relation to data availability and management im-plications for NIS in marine ecosystems. Another alien species alert report was published in ICES CRR series (see: Gollasch, S. et al. 2015. Alien Species Alert: Ensis directus. Current status of invasions by the marine bivalve Ensis directus. ICES Cooperative Research Re-port No. 323. 32 pp.). The outline for the new report onthe sea squirt Didemnum vexillum, was developed during the meeting. The group also reviewed OSPAR JAMP Eutrophica-tion Guidelines on phytoplankton species composition and developed advice related to non-indigenous phytoplankton species. As usual, appropriate time was devoted to dis-cuss national reports, exchange of information on the management of NIS and review of research activities.\nThe approach taken during the meeting facilitated presentations and discussions on the issues of relevance related to the Terms of References, but also a few generic and strategi-cally important issues relevant to the theme of bioinvasions in general. The meeting started with a full-day joint meeting with the Working Group on Ballast and Other Ship Vectors (WGBOSV) to provide an opportunity to discuss and address issues of common interest. It was also agreed that this practice of conducting back to back meetings with one joint day will continue in 2016.\nAll Terms of References identified for 2015 were discussed. For some Terms of Refer-ence, a more detailed presentation was given during the meeting and a short overview of the information and subsequent discussion is provided in the report at the end of each section. The report is structured so that each Term of Reference is dealt with in sequential order. The main body of the report contains summaries of the presentations and discus-sions with the more detailed documents being contained in the Annexes.\nThe group progressed in each of the Terms of Reference by either completing the task or clearly identifying and agreeing on the intersessional activities required to finalise the work. Intersessional work is inherently an integral component of future work for WGITMO. To share the workload, several group members were asked to lead some spe-cific tasks.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.102 | 0.035 |
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".