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RMP.2:5.2 - Citizen Stream Salinity: Dispositions without an Affiliation Gate

The resident team supplies a brief asking which rival account explains a salinity increase for a named reach and period: road-salt transport, groundwater contribution, a changed outfall, seasonal hydrology, or sensor drift. Academic status, funding, and publication plans are irrelevant.

  • Return EvidenceSufficientStop if current validated monitoring and source results already discriminate the bounded anomaly for the named use. Preserve limits; the team does not need a new project for recognition.
  • Return a field/observational ResearchDesignDecision when measure validity, safe site access, comparison reaches/periods, and required authority are supplied and the selected spatial-temporal contrast can challenge the live rivals. An exact trace-file locator can remain a PostSelectionNeed; calibration feasibility, site access, or admissible comparison cannot.
  • Return ResearchDesignHold when sensor validity, safe/legal access, outfall-record access, or seasonal comparison availability can still make the field strategy invalid or favor source synthesis, instrument repair, or no study. The hold names the owner and result; it is not a request for an academic sponsor.

The environmental or operational receiver retains response authority. A research result may change the bounded explanation and evidence limits, not order remediation.