Combined BS/MS in Environmental Science & Ecology
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Abstract
The VisionThe proposed combined BS/MS Program in Environmental Science and Biology would attract and improve retention of high parameter undergraduate students majoring in the Department of Environmental Science and Biology by offering them an efficient, timeshortened degree program and a rich portfolio of courses.The goal of the proposed combined BS/MS in Environmental Science and Biology is to develop in its students an advanced understanding of ecosystem structure and function, and how environmental stressors affect them.Graduates of SUNY Brockport's combined BS/MS in Environmental Science and Biology will be trained in a variety of modern scientific methods in environmental chemistry and toxicology, ecological genetics, statistical and computational analysis, and field biology.The interdisciplinary nature of our program will facilitate interaction among students and faculty with different areas of expertise, both within SUNY Brockport and across a broad range of academic, governmental and nongovernmental institutions.Our program will encourage students to design and conduct innovative graduate research projects, and to develop strong written and oral communication skills through presentations at professional meetings and submission of manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals.Graduates of the combined BS/MS Program in Environmental Science and Biology will be "well rounded specialists" in Environmental Science.They will have solid science backgrounds with an undergraduate specialty in either Environmental Chemistry, Earth Science, Aquatic Ecology or Terrestrial Ecology.Courses included in this curriculum will ensure high levels of oral and written communication skills and technical expertise, will help students acquire up-to-date knowledge on environmental issues and politics and develop the strong scientific and analytical skills essential for solving tomorrows vexing environmental problems.The proposed combined BS/MS program in Environmental Science and Biology will provide a solid background in the natural sciences.Students participating in the graduate potion of the program will take a minimum of 30 credit hours by faculty advisement.Graduate courses could be taken in at least two of the college's Schools -Letters and Sciences and Professions.For example, Environmental Law is offered in the School of Professions.However, we expect that most course offerings would be from the School of Letters and Sciences.The program contains courses that integrate the expertise of faculty in several departments, such as Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.Thus, the course sequence selected by the student, in collaboration with the Thesis Advisory Committee, may include courses from other disciplines and draw on environmental experts from the larger community.This unique approach reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the program. Graduate students are also important to our ability to attract research funds and develop the quality of the undergraduate program in Environmental Science and Biology. Graduate students
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.223 | 0.067 |
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".