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The Society of Wilderness, SOW, is an environmental association which was founded by the general public in 1995. The organization is dedicated to make significant and selfless contribution to protect ecological environment in Taiwan through natural education, participation in environmental issue, habitat preservation, going deep into communities and promoting volunteer activities.
https://www.sow.org.tw
In terms of marine protection, SOW not only holds beach cleanups and environmental education activities, but also builds a platform in June 2015 to facilitate data collection and researchers on marine debris. The platform initiates Beach Litter Rapid Assessment around the island in 2018 and receive the first accurate data of the waste distribution along the coast of Taiwan. On the other hand, SOW has been working hard on promoting plastic reduction. By reducing the use of disposable products, we can help keep Taiwan coastline clean and beautiful.
http://cleanocean.sow.org.tw/index.php
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Marine litter has become a critical pollution issue which is worthy of global attention. Scientific studies show that artificial waste has posed a tremendous and irreversible threat to our environment and economy.
Compared to air and water pollution, the geographic scale of marine waste is far more larger, which results in difficulties for finding the connection between the pollution source and polluted area.
There are high discrepancies in artificial waste in appearances, size, weights and ingredients, which makes it challenging to identify these pollutants with single detector or utilizing methods commonly used in examining heavy metals and pesticide.
Although the reduction of artificial waste is the fundamental way to solve the pollution issue, however, it’s challenging and time-consuming. Thus, terminal solutions such as beach cleanup have played an important role in alleviating this crisis.
Beach Litter Rapid Assessment allows researchers to conduct sampling survey in a wide range of locations in a short period of time. It is one of the examination methods that helps quantify the marine wastes and assist scientists decide the location where beach cleanup should be held. The sampling survey is conducted by each observation station every ten kilometers of the shoreline. Taiwan has 121 observation stations in the 2210-kilometer coastline.
This topic focuses on exploiting the data collected by one observatory to predict the sampling survey results of nearby observatories. This method is expected to lower the amount of observation station and the involvement of human labor.
Reference
[1] https://www.sow.org.tw/sites/sow/files/hai_an_fei_qi_wu_kuai_shai_diao_cha_zhi_yin_190802.pdf
First place: 150,000 discount points of hicloud
Second place: 100,000 discount points of hicloud
Third place: 50,000 discount points of hicloud
Honorable mention: 50,000 discount points of hicloud (multiple winners, depends on the final result)
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The activity time will be based on Taiwan Standard Time (UTC+8), and the schedule is as follows.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 2019/11/20 | Registration begins |
| 2020/03/04 | Registration closed |
| 2020/03/11 | Awards announcement |
After the participants uploaded their forecasts, the system will calculate the score based on Cohen’s kappa formula illustrated below:
$$ k=1- {\sum_{i=1}^{k} \sum_{j=1}^{k} w_{ij} x_{ij} \over \sum_{i=1}^{k} \sum_{j=1}^{k} w_{ij} m_{ij} } $$
