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Richard Glenn
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Hunting for ugruk, or bearded seal. Photo © Bill Hess, Running Dog Publications
Richard Glenn is President of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting research and local involvement in research in the Barrow area, as well as the Director of the North Slope Borough Department of Energy Management. He has worked with the North Slope Borough since 1995 and is responsible for providing current and long-range planning that complements on-going and future energy programs for the North Slope Borough.
From 1993 to 1995 he managed a small technical firm. Some of the projects included: North Slope Energy Alternative Study, Barrow Gas Field reservoir engineering, comprehensive housing plans, solid waste management plans and logistic support for many ice research organizations, including U.S. Navy, Army Corps of Engineers, and many universities and colleges. Glenn has experience in the petroleum geological field from regional studies to reservoir, formation and production evaluation. He has also been involved with field geologic mapping and structural geologic and seismic interpretation, permafrost, methane hydrate, and borehole temperature profile research.
Glenn received a Bachelor of Science at San Jose State University in 1985 and went on to receive his Masters Degree in Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1991. He was appointed as a member of the United States Arctic Research Commission in 1995 and was re-appointed in 1999. He is also a member of the Ilisagvik College Board of Trustees (1993–present), the Native American Science Education Commission, and the Board of Barrow Technical Services, Inc. (1993–1995).
Richard heeds the Barrow elders, who want the same opportunities for working with scientists extended to younger people that had once been available to them. Richard works tirelessly to help researchers and to help provide opportunities for exposure to scientific research for young people.
