Results from scenarios of altered commercial vessel traffic density, speed and transit route
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Noise increases resulting from a seven-fold increase in tanker and tug transits related to the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project, and the efficacy of slowdown and rerouting measures as mitigation were estimated using a vessel noise model. Potential acoustic impacts to southern resident killer whales (SRKW, Orcinus orca) were considered by examining communication and echolocation ranges (0.5-15 kHz and 15-100 kHz respectively) at typical swimming and foraging depths (7.5, 50 and 100 m) during May to October. Measure effectiveness was determined through the comparison of simulated scenarios to a pre-project baseline. Increases were focused in shipping lanes and shallow water. Slowing vessels to 10 knots throughout their transit was the most effective mitigation measure, whereas a lateral displacement of tugs through the Strait of Juan de Fuca made no change overall. The metric used to evaluate noise level change influenced conclusions on measure efficacy, where reductions were seen for slowdowns in upper (e.g., L<sub>75</sub>, L<sub>95</sub>) but not in lower percentiles (L<sub>50</sub> or below). By targeting the faster moving vessels, slowdowns effectively shift the greatest noise sources to these lower levels. Results presented are from best available inputs at the time; amendments may occur as refinements are made to the model.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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.
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