Rising Seas: An Interdisciplinary Perspective for NSU STEM Students
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Abstract
Note: This lecture is only open to NSU affiliates. Coastal cities worldwide are experiencing worsening floods. A growing concern is how high seas will rise and how soon. John Englander is a noted oceanographer, now leading the Rising Seas Institute at NSU. He explains the science in plain language using simple graphics and descriptions from his many trips to the polar regions. About the Presenter John Englander is a renowned oceanographer, multi-book author, speaker, and expert on climate change and sea level rise. His 2012 book, High Tide on Main Street explained the science in easy-to-understand terms. Politico listed it as one of the top fifty books to read. Englander’s 2021 book, Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward (The Science Bookshelf) is rated 5-Stars. Over a million people have read his books, or heard his message through blogs and talks in the U.S. and internationally, including a TEDx talk. He has given expert testimony to the US Congress and presented to military leadership including the US Navy, US Air Force, the US Coast Guard. Internationally he has briefed top military leaders from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Englander is consistently rated as one of the best speakers on climate change and sea level rise. He works to help diverse professionals understand why sea level will rise far higher than most can imagine, and likely much sooner as well. As a leading spokesperson for “intelligent adaptation”, John advocates that, we must move to higher ground globally. This will have hard-to-imagine effects in 140 coastal nations. The sooner we begin planning for this profound disruption, the better. John’s background as a scientist, explorer, entrepreneur, and CEO (International SeaKeepers Society, The Cousteau Society) combine to help him assess not just the scientific impacts of profound SLR, but also the business, economic, and humanitarian impacts. John Englander is the founding Director of the Rising Seas Institute, a nonprofit program that has become part of Nova Southeastern University (NSU), www.nova.edu in 2025.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.024 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.008 |
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".