Clayoquot Sound Harmful Algal Blooms Investigation of Sydney Inlet - 2019
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2014 and 2019, an unusually warm patch of water in the North Pacific called the 'Blob', came ashore in early Fall of both years. Researchers were interested to see if this warm water intruded into Sydney Inlet of Clayoquot Sound, which is located off the west coast of Vancouver Island an important source of food and income for the neighboring communities. If these warm waters intruded into the Sound, this could in-turn create favorable conditions for harmful algal blooms (HABs) to form, specifically the phytoplankton Alexandrium known to be present in this region. As a result, University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) faculty and students measured water properties and collected water samples for nutrient analysis for Clayoquot Sound for those years. Choropleth maps were created to compare relative concentrations of key nutrients used by phytoplankton, and contoured profile plots were used to determine if oceanic conditions were favorable for HABs to develop. Overall, researchers found that the 'Blob' intruded into the waters of Sydney Inlet, causing an average temperature increase of 1°C within the water body, as well as a decrease in nitrate and phosphate concentrations and an increase in fluorescence. This data suggested an increase in favorable conditions for Alexandrium corresponding to the years where the 'Blob' was present. This leads to the need for additional monitoring of shellfish beds within the area during these warm water anomalies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".