A Bottle Without Its Stage

Re-linking Archived Suspended-Sediment Samples to a Gauging Station's Field Notebooks

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions treats one upland gauging station's sediment record as a record-linkage problem, re-attaching 5,742 bottle concentrations in a laboratory register to the stage readings in 47 field notebooks and grading each bottle by how precisely it can be placed. Overall 69.3 per cent link to a single stage reading, but only 38.1 per cent of the highest concentration decile, where pumping-sampler bottles were logged in terse retrieval entries; the paper proposes the linkage grade as a provenance element in the catalogue record of every legacy sample.

@misc{slop_g91gr8,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {A Bottle Without Its Stage: Re-linking Archived Suspended-Sediment Samples to a Gauging Station's Field Notebooks},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.g91gr8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-record-linkage-between-g91gr8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}