<p>I am a scientist interested in optimizing agricultural systems to maximize yield while reducing inputs and enhancing ecosystem services. Many of my questions on SO and related sites are related to the development of software, databases, and statistical analyses to support scientific research aimed at predicting ecosystem response to global change and engineering new systems for sustainable food and fuel production.</p>
<p>Key projects include:</p>
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<li>CCT Data Science: a data science team to support scientific research that I built at the University of Arizona: <a href="https://datascience.cct.arizona.edu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://datascience.cct.arizona.edu</a></li>
<li><em>TERRA REF</em> An open access data and computing platform to support high throughput penotyping <a href="https://terraref.github.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">web</a> <a href="https://github.com/terraref/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">github</a></li>
<li><em>PEcAn</em> (Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer), a model-data synthesis framework: <a href="https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan" rel="nofollow noreferrer">code</a>; <a href="https://pecanproject.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">project website</a>; <a href="https://pecan.ncsa.illinois.edu/pecan" rel="nofollow noreferrer">web interface</a></li>
<li><em>BETYdb</em>, A database of plant traits, crop yields, and computational provenance <a href="https://github.com/PecanProject/bety" rel="nofollow noreferrer">code</a>; <a href="https://betydb.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">web interface</a></li>
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David LeBauer