Public-Data Validation Without New Fieldwork
A version-aware acquisition and exposure-audit pipeline for PRISM ReefWatch
Translate observation-aligned evaluation into a version-aware public-data acquisition and exposure-audit prototype. The offline tests preserve missingness, provenance and chronology rather than silently filling gaps.
- Identifier
- MF-PRISM-REEF-2026-03
- Series
- Reef & Climate
- Edition
- Version 0.2
- Length
- 8 pages
- Reserved DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.22728281 (record reserved)
What is this paper trying to establish?
Can a defensible coral-bleaching validation pipeline be built entirely from public data without new fieldwork?
The central idea.
Translate observation-aligned evaluation into a version-aware public-data acquisition and exposure-audit prototype. The offline tests preserve missingness, provenance and chronology rather than silently filling gaps.
Technical note and offline-tested public-data acquisition prototype. No real bleaching records were acquired or fitted, and no new fieldwork is required.
This technical note documents an acquisition and validation method. It is not a fitted biological model and does not claim new field observations.
What changes if the method holds?
The design makes a serious validation program possible from a computer while treating missing data, source versions, spatial assignment, and chronology as first-class evidence.
Where scrutiny should concentrate.
The paper identifies the following points as the highest-value targets for independent review.
- 01Missing outcome versus measured zero; versioned biological records.
- 02Temperature support, spatial assignment, masks and units.
- 03Blocked acquisition and test-double boundaries.
An open, inspectable research artifact.
The public record links the manuscript to its release, source package, review materials, and persistent identifier. Status travels with the paper; a reserved DOI is not presented as a published Zenodo record.
- Document
- Technical Note
- Review status
- Open for independent review
- Published
- 2026-09-12
- DOI status
- Reserved · 10.5281/zenodo.22728281
- Canonical record
- MF-PRISM-REEF-2026-03