David Lebauer
Owner And Principal Scientist at The LeBauer Approach LLC
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lebauer is a Chief Scientist and interdisciplinary data scientist with 15 years of experience applying ecological and agricultural modeling, informatics, and software engineering to real-world problems. He founded and led the University of Arizona data science team, built a data science incubator, and secured multi-year funding and industry partnerships to scale modeling and informatics capacity across agriculture and life sciences. David blends hands-on back-end development (notably contributions to the PEcAn ecosystem bioinformatics toolbox and BioCro module) with program leadership that has produced petabyte-scale public agricultural datasets and operational model calibration workflows for carbon and soil protocols. Based in Tucson, he moves fluidly between academic research, government- and industry-funded projects, and startup-style delivery at The LeBauer Approach, translating complex sensor, genomic, and environmental data into usable tools and publications. He holds a PhD in Earth System Science and is known for turning large, heterogeneous datasets into reproducible pipelines and decision-ready models.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Agricultural Ecology, Biogeochemistry, MS, Agricultural Ecology, Biogeochemistry at University of California, DavisBS, Biology, BS, Biology at Duke UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
PecanProject/pecan
Sep 2010 - Jan 2023
The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) is an integrated ecological bioinformatics toolbox.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 264 reviews, 2816 commits in 12 years 6 months
Contributions summary:David made several contributions to the biocro module, including updated documentation and the creation of new functions. The commits indicate a focus on modifying and documenting the existing code base, with a strong emphasis on adding functionality for the BioCro model. Furthermore, the user was responsible for the creation of functions related to time step modifications.
bioinformaticsecosystem-modelpecanrnational-science-foundation
PecanProject/betydbdoc-dataentry
Jul 2016 - Apr 2023
BETYdb Data Entry Documentation
Contributions:3 PRs, 42 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 10 months
data-entrybetydb
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