Jonah M Duckles
Contact
Personal – [email protected] / NZ: +64.(0)27.461.0982
Work – [email protected]
Education
- M.S. 2008, Remote Sensing and GIS, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- B.S. 2001, Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Experience
Organizational Mycology — Co-Founder
2022-present
Organizational Mycology is a consulting group that seeks to help clients bring a mindset of bio-mimicry and systems thinking to deep and transformational change.
Whale Bytes Limited — Founder and Director
2021-present
Advising, consulting, facilitating, and strategy development to help impact-driven organizations
to create structures which can help them grow their reach.
Future Bees NZ Limited — Director
2021-present
Co-Leading and supporting Future Bees NZ to grow its reach and impact. Supporting researchers, beekeepers and bee-related professionals with data analysis, knowledge, and information sharing.
Xero — Global Data Evangelism Lead
2020-2021
Improving the understanding and use of data and AI/ML among the global Xero workforce through education and capacity-building efforts to support the company’s shift towards a data-focused strategy.
AbacusBio — Consultant
2019-2020
Leading a pivot toward a teaching / learning organisation with data science skills and capabilities across the company while architecting geospatial data analysis capabilities and infrastructur to support core business areas.
The Carpentries
2015-2019
Director of Membership and Technology
2018-2019
Advised and mentored 100+ organisational leaders in the global research sector, supporting data science skill development and capacity-building in their organisations. Lead the membership revenue growth resulting in $800,000 annual recurring revenue to support the organisation and its impactful work.
Executive Director — The Software Carpentry Foundation
2015-2017
Took over from founding Executive Director and built a sustainment and long-term revenue model for the organisation. Merged the organisation with a peer organisation to form The Carpentries.
University of Oklahoma
2010-2015
Director of Informatics and Innovation
2014-2015
Designed and built award winning maker / innovation spaces on campus for digital fabrication and emerging technologies while expanding and integrating research informatics services into core research support offerings for the University.
Awarded over US$700,000 in Federal NSF grants as PI/co-PI to support informatics and innovation activities with numerous research collaborators.
Senior Informatics Analyst
2010-2014
Lanworth — Senior Analyst
2008-2010
Purdue University
2001-2008
Graduate Research Assistant
2005-2008
Strategic Planning and Center Coordinator
2001-2005
International Technology Strategy Partners — Founder / Partner
2002-2007
Grants
I’ve participated in the development of entrepreneurial and cyberinfrastructure components of major awarded grants in the US totaling over $US 36.5-million dollars.
- Microsoft AI for Earth - PI - Azure credit to explore AI applications for better quantifying phenotypes in honeybee production systems. April 2019. US $15,000.
- Collaborative Research: IDBR - Co-PI - Type B: An Open-Source Radio Frequency Identification System for Animal Monitoring. October 2016. US $344,148 #1556313
- R Consortium - PI - “Software Carpentry R Instructor Training”, April 2016. US $10,000
- NSF ABI - PI - “The Electronic Transponder Analysis Gateway (ETAG): An Animal Behavior Observatory”, June 15, 2015 - May 31, 2018. US $314,890.00 #1458402
- NCIIA E-Teams Stage 2 - PI - “Siren Weather Analysis Application”, July 1, 2014 - June 31, 2015. US $20,000
- NCIIA E-Teams Stage 1 - PI - PI - “Siren Weather Analysis Application”, April 1, 2014 - December 31, 2014. #11343-14, US $5,000
- EPSCoR Track-I - Senior Personnel - “Adapting Socio-ecological Systems to Increased Climate Variability”, June 2013 - May 2018, US $24,000,000 NSF:1301789
- USDA AFRI Grazing CAP - Senior Personnel - “Vulnerability and resilience of Southern Great Plains beef in an environment of increased climate variability”, Feb 2013 - Feb 2018, US $9,600,000
- NSF Innovation Corps - Co-Pi, “FlowWorks - A Modern Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Data Modeling and Analysis”, Aug 2012 - Dec 2012, US $50,000
- NSF EPSCoR Track-II - Senior Personnel, “A CyberCommons for Ecological Forecasting”, September 2009 - August 2012, US $3,000,000
- D. Woods Thomas Memorial International Travel Grant - Awardee - April 2007, US $1,000
Peer reviewed publications
- Contina, Andrea, Eli S. Bridge, Nathaniel E. Seavy, Jonah M. Duckles, and Jeffrey F. Kelly. 2013. “Using Geologgers to Investigate Bimodal Isotope Patterns in Painted Buntings (Passerina Ciris).” The Auk 130 (2): 265–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/auk.2013.13003.
- Duckles, J.M., and E.J. Coyle. 2002. “Purdue’s Center for Technology Roadmapping: A Resource for Research and Education in Technology Roadmapping.” In IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, 2:900–904 vol.2. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2002.1038558.
- Jordan, Kari L., Marianne Corvellec, Elizabeth D. Wickes, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, Jonah M. Duckles, and Tracy K. Teal. 2018. “Short-Format Workshops Build Skills and Confidence for Researchers to Work with Data.” In . https://peer.asee.org/short-format-workshops-build-skills-and-confidence-for-researchers-to-work-with-data.
- Katz, Daniel S., Lois Curfman McInnes, David E. Bernholdt, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Neil P. Chue Hong, Jonah Duckles, Sandra Gesing, et al. 2019. “Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained.” Computing in Science Engineering 21 (2): 8–24. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2018.2883051.
- Linck, Ethan, Eli S. Bridge, Jonah M. Duckles, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, and Sievert Rohwer. 2016. “Assessing Migration Patterns in Passerina Ciris Using the World’s Bird Collections as an Aggregated Resource.” PeerJ 4 (April): e1871. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1871.
- Pijanowski, Bryan, Deepak Ray, Anthony Kendall, Jonah Duckles, and David Hyndman. 2007. “Using Backcast Land-Use Change and Groundwater Travel-Time Models to Generate Land-Use Legacy Maps for Watershed Management.” Ecology and Society 12 (2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02154-120225.
- Ray, Deepak K., Jonah M. Duckles, and Bryan C. Pijanowski. 2010. “The Impact of Future Land Use Scenarios on Runoff Volumes in the Muskegon River Watershed.” Environmental Management 46 (3): 351–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-010-9533-z.
- Soyka, Heather, Amber Budden, Viv Hutchison, David Bloom, Jonah Duckles, Amy Hodge, Matthew Mayernik, et al. 2017. “Using Peer Review to Support Development of Community Resources for Research Data Management.” Journal of EScience Librarianship 6 (2). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2017.1114.
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