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Personal Profile
Jon Weers is a data scientist, developer, and researcher in the Advanced Data Analytics & Tools Group within the Strategic Energy Analysis Center (SEAC) at NREL, where he has developed numerous high-profile data management solutions for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the White House, and the United Nations. He has over 20 years of experience developing data-driven, interactive web applications for research organizations, governments, and private industry. Prior to joining NREL in 2010, Weers was the founder of a startup company in the real estate sector that integrated public data APIs with custom web solutions and a lead developer at The Library Corp, where he designed and implemented large-scale, web-based, modular management platform for the Chicago and Denver public library systems.
Weers is an Eagle Scout, a level 2-certified snowboard instructor with the Professional Ski Instructors of America & American Association of Snowboard Instructors (PSIA-AASI), an internationally recognized expert on open data and data provenance, and a speaker on data management philosophy and best practices.
As an NREL researcher, Weers has authored numerous papers on data management best practices, emerging data science trends, and the challenges of working with big data. He has received several awards, including the Alliance for Sustainable Energy’s President’s Award in 2014 and 2012, as well as an NREL Staff Award in 2013.
Research Interests
Data management solutions
Data provenance
Interactive web applications
Data visualization
User experience (UX) design
Project management
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Collaborations and Top Research Areas From the Past 5 Years
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The EGS Collab Project: Outcomes and Lessons Learned from Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations in Crystalline Rock at 1.25 and 1.5 Km Depth: Article No. 103178
Kneafsey, T., Dobson, P., Blankenship, D., Schwering, P., White, M., Morris, J., Huang, L., Johnson, T., Burghardt, J., Mattson, E., Neupane, G., Strickland, C., Knox, H., Vermuel, V., Ajo-Franklin, J., Fu, P., Roggenthen, W., Doe, T., Schoenball, M. & Hopp, C. & 14 others, , 2025, In: Geothermics. 126, 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Empowering Geothermal Research: The Geothermal Data Repository's New AI Research Assistant: Preprint
Weers, J., Podgorny, S., Taverna, N., Anderson, A., Porse, S. & Buster, G., 2024. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Fostering Geothermal Machine Learning Success: Elevating Big Data Accessibility and Automated Data Standardization in the Geothermal Data Repository: Preprint
Taverna, N., Weers, J., Mello, S., Lowney, A., Mohammad, A. & Porse, S., 2024. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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GeoBridge: Connecting Communities to Geothermal Information and Opportunities: Preprint
Weers, J., Venhuizen, A., Wertz, T., Smith, F., Metcalfe, E. & Porse, S., 2024. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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An Update on the Geothermal Data Repository's Data Standards and Pipelines: Geospatial Data and Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data
Taverna, N., Weers, J., Porse, S., Anderson, A., Frone, Z. & Holt, E., 2023, p. 2361-2375. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
1 Scopus Citations
Awards and Honors
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U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Innovation Award
Brodt-Giles, D. (Recipient) & Weers, J. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Honorary award