Tewapskik Annapolis River, Kespukwitk-Mi'kma'ka Nova Scotia: a comparative analysis of the influence of a tidal turbine on aquatic biodiversity
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Abstract
The barrage style Annapolis Tidal Power Generating Station (ATiGS) in <em>Nme’juaqnek</em> Annapolis Royal, <em>Kespukwitk Mi’kma’ki</em> Nova Scotia was Canada’s first tidal turbine station – harnessing the tides of the <em>We’kopekwitk</em> Bay of Fundy. In 2019, ATiGS operations were ceased, although structurally it still remains. Since ATiGS’s turbine operation started in 1984, significant habitat changes occurred, and fish assemblages were notably altered throughout the <em>Tewapskik</em> Annapolis River. In 2012, <em>Tewapskik Ji’kaw</em> Striped Bass <em>Morone saxatilis</em> (Walbaum, 1792) population was described as extirpated by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Historically, from 10 August 2010 to 13 November 2015 beach seine surveys were completed at 16 sample sites to quantify species assemblages during ATiGS operations. These quantified assemblage data had not been historically analyzed during ATiGS tidal turbine operations. After ceasing operations, contemporary monitoring of 15 historical sites began in 2021. From 29 July 2021 to 03 December 2023, with the introduction of 1 new sample site, 16 sample sites were sampled using beach seine surveys. Post-cessation survey data were compiled and compared with historical pre-cessation survey data to characterize turbine operation influence and changes in species presence, abundance, richness, and movement for overall aquatic assemblage. <em>L’nu’k Mi’kmaq</em> ways of understanding <em>Tewapskik</em> area and interacting significant species such as <em>Ji’kaw</em> Striped Bass <em>M. saxatilis</em> were a part of a navigational integrative-scientific method. Two scientific systems (academic and Mi’kmaq) were used in tandem without conformity and were complementarily able to support the theory that <em>Tewapskik</em> aquatic biodiversity is visibly recovering using data from either qualitative or quantitative analyses. These data were able to provide perspectives of <em>Tewapskik</em> typical-estuary ecology and biodiversity pre-ATiGS, where historical scientific information was not available.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".