Session Seven: Protecting Special Places DEVELOPING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL MARINE CONSERVATION AREA IN THE BAY OF FUNDY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of Canada’s options for conservation, using the marine reserve approach, is Parks Canada’s National Marine Conservation Areas (NMCA) program. The purpose of this program is to unite sus-tainable human activity with the protection of representative marine environments. Parks Canada has divided Canada’s oceans and Great Lakes into 29 distinct marine regions. The Bay of Fundy is one of ten such regions delineated in Atlantic Canada. With its high level of unique biological diversity and human activity, the Bay of Fundy may be a good candidate site for pursuing NMCA establishment in the near future. However, it is critical not to base NMCA establishment decisions solely on a biophysical foundation, without considering the social condition and interests of the area. The project reported here explores the potential for NMCA establishment in the Bay of Fundy by examining the current views of various members of the broadly defined Bay of Fundy community. To accomplish this, interviews were carried out with various community members and stakeholder groups. The research has resulted in a possible framework for NMCA establishment in the Bay of Fundy. The results highlight important initial steps that might be taken in order to optimize the chance of success. These steps include: establishing a non-governmental secretariat to guide the project; a broad education campaign to generate public support; early involvement and commitment from all partners and stakeholder groups; finding non-governmental project leaders from local communityies; and secur-ing funds and other resources.
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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 | 0.013 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.007 |
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".