Retreat of an Unnamed Glacier in Stave River Watershed, Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia
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Abstract
The retreat of glaciers in southwestern British Columbia is happening at an alarming rate. An unnamed cirque glacier lies on the northeast slope of Galaxy Peak within the Stave River watershed in southeastern Garibaldi Park, British Columbia. A comparison of Google Earth Engine Timelapse imagery reveals that the glacier has been retreating at an average of 5.5±.7 m a⁻¹ between 1988 and 2020. If the glacier were to continue retreating at this same rate, the glacier would take approximately 232 years to disappearcompletely. The position of terminal moraines using high-resolution satellite imagery indicates that the approximate length of the glacier during the maximum of the Little Ice Age was 2.2 km. If measured from the end of the Little Ice Age until 2020, the glacierwould have retreated at an average rate of 5.1±.2 m a ⁻¹. Additionally, analysis of sentinel-2 imagery from 2022 indicates the accumulation area ratio (AAR= 0.3) is below the equilibrium accumulation ratio (AAR 0) required for the survival of glaciers between 1 and 4 km². Other evidence such as rock islands appearing in the accumulation zone and lakes forming on the east margin indicates a low likelihood of survival for this glacier in our current climate. This is the WDCAG Conference 2023 Award Winner for Best Undergraduate Poster.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".